Posted on 06/17/2020 2:54:41 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
San Francisco (AFP) -- Facebook said Tuesday it plans to help four million Americans register to vote, and insists it can be a positive force in the presidential election later this year.
The move comes amid renewed scrutiny of the social media giant for failing to stem foreign interference in the 2016 US election, and after heated debate over how the network handles misinformation and inflammatory posts -- including from Donald Trump.
Mark Zuckerberg has been strongly criticized for his company's decision to not moderate controversial, incendiary and inaccurate posts by US President.
Zuckerberg, in an opinion piece published by USA Today, announced a Facebook campaign "to help 4 million people register to vote."
He said the social network was creating a new hub for users, allowing them to access "authoritative information, including how and when to vote, as well as details about voter registration, voting by mail and information about early voting."
Addressing foreign interference, Zuckerberg wrote that the threat "is real and ongoing, but our systems are more prepared than ever."
The best way to ultimately hold politicians accountable is by voting, Zuckerberg wrote.
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Data from Star Trek/TNG
Oh, isn’t that sweet???
How kind of them...
After all, they must have the country’s best interests at heart.
(do I need a sarcasm tag?)
Douche
LOL! I liked him in Independence Day. And Will Smith is pretty easy on the eyes! ;)
The question is how many do we have to kill to win?I suggest, ALL.
I would like to nominate your post as the post of the day.
It’s short and sweet...Says it all with just one word!
Wow you are the first woman I have heard that from.
The rest are indifferent as to his appearance.
I would love to see the thread in that application when you choose ‘R’.
Facebook has millions of fake accounts. Of course they are.
Hey let’s get as many new voters as we can and then “fact-check” the hell out of conservative posts!
“Help Americans register to vote”
The treat that simple task like it’s rocket surgery. Every time I deal with the DMV I get asked, “Do you want to register to vote?” I through at least a dozen pieces of mail in the trash each year asking me, “Do you want to register to vote?” It’s not like there isn’t ample opportunity. But what they are trying to do is couple the act of ‘registration’ with a ‘political event’.
The ignorant left is desperate!
no political bias here... move along citizen, move along...
The end game is not to “register them to vote” but vote for them. What could be easier than voting through FakeBook? How easy to manipulate and it speeds up the counting process. Let’s just turn it all over to them.
Banning content and now trying to convince their hostage audience to vote for the politics of which they approve?
This is election tampering. It's all it ever was. Some of us are not astute enough to see this.
Are these four million people in Comas and unable to Register to Vote on their own?
For the past day I’ve been pissing off a whole bunch of Liberals on a Fakebook Thread featuring Nancy Pelosi telling everyone that McConnel and Trump are responsible for ALL the Kung Flu Deaths in this Country.
Their admiration and love for Nancy is boundless.
I still have no idea how that Thread got onto my Fakebook feed.
Encouraging voting is election tampering?
They are going beyond "encouraging." They are helping to register and giving instructions.
When you are banning all opposition content, yes it is election tampering. It is only done for the purpose of tampering with elections.
FEC ought to be stomping a mud hole in them.
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