{"id":44502,"date":"2020-06-18T02:21:17","date_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/facebook-wants-to-register-4-million-new-voters-before-the-2020-presidential-election\/"},"modified":"2020-06-18T02:21:17","modified_gmt":"2020-06-18T02:21:17","slug":"facebook-wants-to-register-4-million-new-voters-before-the-2020-presidential-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/virusreports.net\/facebook-wants-to-register-4-million-new-voters-before-the-2020-presidential-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook wants to register 4 million new voters before the 2020 presidential election"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After deflecting criticism that it is not doing enough to stop the spread of political misinformation, Facebook says it\u2019s expanding its efforts to get people to vote in the 2020 US presidential election.<\/p>\n

Starting in July and running through November, the company will begin reminding US users to register to vote with a message at the top of their Facebook and Instagram feeds. It will also point users to a new Voting Information Center that will tell people where and how they can vote in their geographic area, and it will surface verified posts from state election officials and local election authorities. The company plans to show this Voting Information Center to 160 million people in total and aims to help 4 million Americans register to vote \u2014 that\u2019s twice the number of voters the company says it helped register in the lead-up to the 2016 presidential election<\/a>, using similar efforts. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced details about the plan, which he called the \u201clargest voting information campaign in American history,\u201d in an op-ed in USA Today<\/a> on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n

Zuckerberg\u2019s announcement follows sharp criticism from Democratic politicians<\/a>, civil rights advocates<\/a>, and some of his own employees<\/a> for taking no action last month on President Donald Trump\u2019s posts on the platform that shared misleading information about voting-by-mail, falsely asserting that the state of California will send mail-in ballots<\/a> to \u201canyone living in the state, no matter who they are or how they got there\u201d (in fact, California only sends ballots to registered voters<\/a>) and that this would lead to \u201ca Rigged Election.\u201d While Facebook left Trump\u2019s post up as-is, Facebook\u2019s competitor Twitter labeled an identical<\/a> post on its platform as containing \u201cpotentially misleading information.\u201d <\/p>\n

Zuckerberg seemed to acknowledge recent criticism for his handling of Trump\u2019s posts in his recent op-ed and argued that encouraging people to vote was a better course of action than moderating politicians\u2019 posts. <\/p>\n

\u201cEveryone wants to see politicians held accountable for what they say \u2014 and I know many people want us to moderate and remove more of their content,\u201d wrote Zuckerberg. \u201cWe have rules against speech that will cause imminent physical harm or suppress voting, and no one is exempt from them. But accountability only works if we can see what those seeking our votes are saying, even if we viscerally dislike what they say. Ultimately, I believe the best way to hold politicians accountable is through voting, and I believe we should trust voters to make judgments for themselves.\u201d<\/p>\n

Internally, some Facebook employees have been calling on Zuckerberg to take a middle-ground approach<\/a> rather than simply leaving up or taking down controversial posts by politicians. Instead, they want Facebook to consider a \u201cnon-binary\u201d action that would label those posts as misleading or contentious, similar to what Twitter did with Trump\u2019s mail-in ballot statements in May.<\/p>\n

Facebook did not respond to a request to answer follow-up questions about the voter information center in time for publication.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s what the reminder to vote and the Voting Information Center will look like on Facebook and Instagram, respectively:<\/h3>\n
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The company is also giving people the option to turn off political ads on their feed, following the company\u2019s move in January<\/a> to let people limit how many of those ads they see. Despite public debate and its competitors\u2019 changing positions, Facebook allows politicians to lie in advertisements on its platform<\/a>, arguing that limiting them would amount to censorship.<\/p>\n

Considering Zuckerberg\u2019s long-standing ethos that Facebook should not be an \u201carbiter of truth\u201d on contentious political speech, his decision not to intervene with world leaders on controversial posts about voting but instead surface more seemingly objective information makes sense. The issue for Facebook is that this approach is increasingly scrutinized by the public, politicians, and even the company\u2019s own social media competitors. Zuckerberg\u2019s efforts to register more voters likely won\u2019t appease critics who argue that the company still isn\u2019t doing enough to mitigate the harm that political misinformation on social media can inflict on the democratic process.<\/p>\n

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