A single voting machine jammed for just minutes Tuesday morning at a precinct in Joe Biden맥스카지노�s hometown of Scranton, Pennsylvania 맥스카지노� but misleading posts on Facebook and Twitter claimed multiple machines there were down for hours.Video above: Homeland Security says disinformation top threat on Election DayPennsylvania emerged as a hot spot for online misinformation on Election Day. Facebook and Twitter scrambled to take down false posts about polling locations in Scranton, Philadelphia and beyond to minimize the spread of misinformation and prevent it from sowing doubt about the election process.Misleading claims about voting in the key battleground state were shared thousands of times on Facebook and Twitter 맥스카지노� even reaching their way to the Twitter feed of the president맥스카지노�s son, Donald Trump Jr.맥스카지노�The fact that we are unlikely to know the result of that pivotal race tonight means that any incidents will receive disproportionate attention because there won맥스카지노�t be a resolution to the race,맥스카지노� said Emerson Brooking, a disinformation fellow at the Atlantic Council맥스카지노�s Digital Forensic Research Lab, a Washington think tank.Results in the closely watched state might be delayed because of the surge of mail-in ballots this year, even though that delay doesn맥스카지노�t indicate a problem with the vote.Conservative social-media influencers and websites spread a video purporting to show voting machine outages in the Scranton Cultural Center at the Masonic Temple throughout the late afternoon and evening. In fact, just one machine had only briefly been jammed and was restored within minutes Tuesday morning, Lackawanna County spokesman Joseph D맥스카지노�Arienzo said.Twitter and Facebook also removed a false post from an Instagram user who claimed to be discarding hundreds of ballots cast for Trump while working at a polling place in Erie County.맥스카지노�The person making the statements does not work in any way with Erie County or have any part of Erie County맥스카지노�s election process,맥스카지노� the Erie County Board of Elections Chair Carl J. Anderson III said in a statement. 맥스카지노�In fact, the individual is not a registered voter and is not believed to be a resident of Erie County, Pa."Facebook said it confirmed with authorities that the claims were inaccurate and was working on removing the posts. Twitter removed screenshots and short videos of the claim, which was originally posted on Instagram by the person claiming to be a poll worker, though not before it gained some traction on the platform, including a retweet from Trump Jr.Twitter also took action on several tweets from the @PhillyGOP account, which is run by the Republican Party of Philadelphia, and at least four from the Trump campaign's director of Election Day operations, Mike Roman.One of the misleading tweets was a photo of a poster endorsing Democratic candidates that was hung on the building of a polling site in northeast Philadelphia. The image was shared more than 10,000 times with Twitter users saying it was a 맥스카지노�violation맥스카지노� of election laws.Not so, said the Philadelphia District Attorney맥스카지노�s Office, which tweeted in response that the polling place is 맥스카지노�located in an interior room and the sign in question is further than 10 feet from it.맥스카지노�Before Election Day even started, Pennsylvania seemed poised for an onslaught of misinformation. In October, the state was mentioned the most 맥스카지노� more than 200,000 times 맥스카지노� in misleading claims of voter fraud on websites and social media platforms, according to data collected by media intelligence firm Zignal Labs.More misinformation is likely to pop up as the outcome of the race is being determined in battleground states like Arizona and Wisconsin, said Cindy Otis, the vice president of analysis for the Alethea Group, a firm that investigates disinformation.맥스카지노�I think we will see additional claims much like the Pennsylvania ones being made about those states as well,맥스카지노� Otis said.