In the months leading up to Tuesday’s mid-term elections, suspicions were rife about the possibility of Facebook influencing the outcome. Facebook had joined Google, Twitter and other high-tech companies in urging people to vote, but skepticism about its motives ran high because in previous elections, it had turned its call to voters into sociological experiments, trying different approaches on different groups. Facebook in essence said that this year it would roll out the same message to all 100 million or so U.S. members.
Who cares, between Citizens United, Gerrymandering, Voter Suppression, Questionable Electronic Voter Machines and general voter apathy, democracy is dead in America and Mussolini fascism of the 1% reigns supreme. Just implode already and do the rest of the world a big favour.
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Facebook's Voter Turnout Efforts: Good, Bad or Pointless?
Posted by: Richard Adhikari November 5, 2014 12:20 PMIn the months leading up to Tuesday’s mid-term elections, suspicions were rife about the possibility of Facebook influencing the outcome. Facebook had joined Google, Twitter and other high-tech companies in urging people to vote, but skepticism about its motives ran high because in previous elections, it had turned its call to voters into sociological experiments, trying different approaches on different groups. Facebook in essence said that this year it would roll out the same message to all 100 million or so U.S. members.