How social media sites plan to handle premature election declarations | MIT Technology Review

How social media sites plan to handle premature election declarations | MIT Technology Review: The election results will start to come in as early as 7 p.m. US Eastern Time on Tuesday, when seven states begin closing the polls. The next few hours will see more polls close around the country, more votes processed, more counts updated. But we won’t have the final result that night. This isn’t unusual:…