Oh yes, these social media giants are just doing their jobs.

With the on-going vote-counting process to some of the key battleground states, the incumbent President Donald Trump has falsely claimed victory and accused ‘unnamed’ people who were trying to "steal" the election and gave wrong information on voting.

As polls began to close Tuesday night, Twitter started placing labels on tweets that made misleading or premature claims about the election’s results.

It started when Trump declared accused an election accused fraud without evidence. Twitter and Facebook stepped in with warnings that the president's posts violated previously established policies.

The social media platforms said that all his recent tweets violated rules so they had to place a warning over the president’s post that reads, “Some or all of the content shared in this Tweet is disputed and might be misleading about an election or other civic process.”

To see his tweets, users must click “View” on the warning label. With the tweet hidden behind the warning, it cannot be directly retweeted (it may be retweeted as a quoted tweet), liked, or commented on.

The Twitter Safety team said, “We placed a warning on a Tweet from @realDonaldTrump for making a potentially misleading claim about an election. This action is in line with our Civic Integrity Policy.”

"As votes are still being counted across the country, our teams continue to take enforcement action on Tweets that prematurely declare victory or contain misleading information about the election broadly," Twitter said.

As Facebook plans to address premature announcements with regards to elections, Trump’s posts were labelled and attached a message that says, “The winner of the 2020 US Presidential Election has not been projected.” Both Facebook’s fact-check labels link to its Voting Information Center hub for the 2020 U.S. election.

Also, some tweets from both Democratic and Republican leaders were noticed by Twitter. The social media platform applied a label to a tweet from Ben Wikler, chair of Wisconsin’s Democratic Party, claiming that Biden won Wisconsin. Twitter also labelled a tweet from Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) claiming victory in his re-election campaign, reports from The Verge.

In this situation, we can see how social media play a vital role in shaping public opinion—some use it as an avenue to create baseless accusation for personal agenda.

One good thing about these ‘election dramas’ is that the evident actions made by these giant online platforms are useful to disseminate factual information in the digital age.