Now Facebook can tell lawmakers what voters are reading

in #news7 years ago

The social network rolled out a series of updates Wednesday aimed at better acquainting people with their representatives and vice versa. Among the new features is something called "insights," that shows elected officials what news stories are popular among his or her constituents.

The goal is to help officials understand what issues are important to their voters.

Members of the public will also be able to see what stories are trending within their own district. Facebook says the "community" tab on elected officials' pages will display a scrolling list of what stories are trending under the headline "Popular in [elected official's name] district."
Facebook also said Wednesday that it's launched a new "constituent badge" feature. If a user turns on the feature, a small badge will appear next to their posts on pages that belong to their local, state or federal representatives. The idea is to make it easy for elected officials to identify what posts are coming from voters in their districts.
"Our goal is to help people build the communities they want by making it easier for them to engage and have a voice in government -- on a daily basis, not just Election Day," a Facebook spokesperson said.

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Thank you for sharing this post with us, I enjoyed reading it. So Facebook is starting to become big brother. Kind of understandable as the amount of people working for them must require some more than just ads income to keep shareholders happy. Glad we over here do not have such issues!

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