{"id":14623,"date":"2020-06-17T15:08:18","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/?p=14623"},"modified":"2020-06-17T15:08:18","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T12:08:18","slug":"facebook-unveils-plans-to-boost-voter-turnout-in-us-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/weben\/facebook-unveils-plans-to-boost-voter-turnout-in-us-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook unveils plans to boost voter turnout in US elections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Facebook will launch \u201cthe largest voting information effort in US history\u201d in the run-up to November\u2019s general election, the company has said, aiming to help 4 million Americans register to vote with a new voting information centre.<\/p>\n

That goal, spread across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger, is double the number of voters registered as a result of its previous drives, in the 2016 and 2018 elections. The company is also hoping it can prevent a repeat of the foreign interference that plagued the last US presidential election.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve built some of the most advanced systems in the world to combat election interference,\u201d said Naomi Gleit, Facebook\u2019s vice-president of product management and social impact. \u201cThe Voting Information Center will be another line of defence. By getting clear, accurate and authoritative information to people, we reduce the effectiveness of malicious networks that might try to take advantage of uncertainty and interfere with the election.\u201d<\/p>\n

Facebook is also making an unprecedented concession to those worried about the effect of targeted political advertising on the site. The company will continue to take such ads, and allow advertisers to use all its standard targeting tools, but individual users will now be able to turn off all social issue, electoral and political ads, removing them wholesale from Facebook products.<\/p>\n

Facebook will also finally show who paid for a political ad for even after it has been shared by another user, and will begin tracking ad spend on a candidate-by-candidate basis, to \u201chelp you understand how much advertisers and candidates are spending to reach voters\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve seen with each election we\u2019ve got better and better at defending the integrity of the democratic process,\u201d Clegg told BBC Radio 4\u2019s Today programme on Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn 2016, I think everybody in a sense got it wrong because no one was aware at the time what the level and sophistication of Russian interference would be,\u201d he added. \u201cIt was the first time that foreign organised adversaries were trying, through social media platforms like Facebook, to interfere in an election\u201d.<\/p>\n

Facebook\u2019s primary goal is to encourage people to vote, says founder Mark Zuckerberg. \u201cI believe Facebook has a responsibility not just to prevent voter suppression \u2013 which disproportionately targets people of colour \u2013 but also to actively support well-informed voter engagement, registration and turnout,\u201d he wrote in USA Today on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

The drive comes as Facebook has suffered unprecedented internal turmoil over its decision not to take down a Donald Trump post that many of its own employees believed to be inciting violence, a decision that Clegg refused to directly support on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Source: Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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