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Facebook officially launches “Town Hall” for contacting government reps
- 6stringmerc 10y agoAlternate title: Facebook opens up new can of worms. Seriously, considering some of the really bad headline type PR, I know this fits in with the Manifesto about doing good...but...good tools in the wrong hands don't mandate good results. Unless there's a real active Moderation component, and even if there is, I'm pretty sure Godwin's Law is going to prove itself time and again. Or worse.
- creaghpatr 10y ago“With the heightened interest and conversation on Facebook around the 2016 elections, we have been exploring ways to support a suite of features that add more structure to how Americans learn about candidates at both the national and local level,” said Samidh Chakrabarti, a product manager for civic engagement at Facebook. source: http://thehill.com/policy/technology/296307-facebook-starts-rollout-of-candidate-issue-pages http://thehill.com/policy/technology/296307-facebook-starts-... Hard pass on facebook 'adding structure to how Americans learn about candidates' thank you very much.
- I_am_neo 10y agoFacebook, the Myspace of Orwellian thought police