Perhaps we could mandate a shutdown of Facebook and Twitter 1 week prior to elections. This wouldn't impede citizens' ability to exercise their first amendment

Perhaps we could mandate a shutdown of Facebook and Twitter 1 week prior to elections. This wouldn't impede citizens' ability to exercise their first amendment right to speak, as there are many, many other outlets for citizens' speech. This would temporarily remove two channels through which manipulators can scale damage instantly. That would help. I think the benefit of doing something like this would be so useful that I'd be glad to give Facebook & Twitter a tax break on their lost revenue. I mean, neither Facebook nor Twitter will adopt any effective measure that hits their revenues. We have to do it for them.