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Title: How Facebook can influence your vote this Election Day Post by: HCK on November 05, 2014, 03:00:23 am How Facebook can influence your vote this Election Day
<article> <section class="page"> <p>Americans using Facebook today will a new message at the top of their News Feeds: “It’s Election Day,” the banner reads. “Share that you’re voting in the U.S. Election and find out where to vote.” So far, nearly 3 million people have clicked “I’m a Voter” after seeing the message, which Facebook calls the voter megaphone.</p><figure class="large ">(https://cms-images.idgesg.net/images/article/2014/11/facebook_election-100528682-large.jpg) <figcaption> <p>When you log into Facebook today, you'll see the voter megaphone at the top of your News Feed.</p></figcaption></figure> <p>Of all the things Facebook does, the voter megaphone seems like the most harmless. Get-out-the-vote efforts, especially nonpartisan ones, are generally considered positive. But this isn’t the first election-related experiment the social network has conducted while developing the tool, Mother Jones reported (http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/can-voting-facebook-button-improve-voter-turnout) last week. Before the 2012 presidential election, Facebook changed the streams of nearly 2 million American users so they would see more hard news stories at the top. The test was designed to see if your News Feed’s news balance influenced voter turnout. According to Mother Jones, it did.</p><p class="jumpTag"><a href="/article/2842958/how-facebook-can-influence-your-vote-this-election-day.html#jump">To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here[/url]</p></section></article> Source: How Facebook can influence your vote this Election Day (http://www.macworld.com/article/2842958/how-facebook-can-influence-your-vote-this-election-day.html#tk.rss_all) |