Facebook, home to more than two billion regular users, was the obvious target. Since Russian-backed trolls succeeded in a widespread influence campaign that reached millions of Americans in 2016, Facebook has been under pressure to safeguard its network against the threat of further foreign meddling. The company, to much ado from the press, set up a “War Room” to catch any last-minute information operations.

There were other blind spots even before the election in the United States. WhatsApp, the encrypted messaging app owned by Facebook used by more than a billion people globally, was a key target for political disinformation in Brazil ahead of its presidential election.

Jair Bolsonaro, often called the Donald Trump of Brazil, surged to an Election Day victory, aided — at least in part — by voter suppression and disinformation tactics that flooded private groups in WhatsApp. That problem is more difficult to deal with on WhatsApp because it is encrypted. And users generally trust private messaging services more than they do more public venues like Facebook.

Facebook has also spent the past month dealing with fallout from a breach involving tens of millions of its users, a gargantuan lapse that came at the worst possible time. Regulators are taking a closer look at the company in response, while Facebook-connected apps have scrambled to increase their security. Now the social media giant is on the hunt to buy a security company to help out, though it hasn’t publicly announced a decision.

Election Day in the United States was indeed a spectacle for Facebook, but for different reasons than we thought. Save for one episode, the day went off without much of a hitch. We’re still holding our breath, but according to Facebook, there were no enormous reveals, no last-minute election night disasters, nothing that seemed to throw the electoral process completely off the rails.