How many people instinctively grabbed their smartphones and headed to Twitter for news updates on this week’s US election, instead of switching on the TV? In a crazy week for politics and a slow one for technology, this has emphasized a trend accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic that social media is the single greatest challenge to traditional broadcast news channels. However, 2020 has seen significant transformations for many broadcasters, investing in remote production software and embracing IP video like never before, so did broadcasters take advantage of their positions as providers of entertaining and factually accurate (most of them) reporting, or did they concede additional eyeballs to the scenes of misinformation endemic to social media networks? While social distancing restrictions…