{"id":28852,"date":"2020-10-26T16:54:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28852"},"modified":"2020-10-26T16:54:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-26T23:54:22","slug":"facebook-says-it-helped-4-4m-people-register-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=28852","title":{"rendered":"Facebook says it helped 4.4M people register to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Monday said it has helped an estimated 4.4 million people register to vote across its platforms since launching a voter information initiative over the summer.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook CEO and co-founder\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zmwdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzmbmfd_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/zmwdvgzjfrrkcgcrkbsffkddfzkqrzrttlfjgwqrzmbmfd_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603836024656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNEVX2ihuekVjCq06Fi6yvKCAc08ag\">Mark Zuckerberg<\/a>\u00a0in June announced the company would launch a voting information center, with the aim of helping 4 million people to register to vote.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, we hit our goal,\u201d Zuckerberg\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qwfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnwvwdd_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/qwfhyjnqdmmtcjcmtvgddthhdntrmnmbbfdqjprmnwvwdd_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603836024656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNE6ae0kVfesJcUOhAtzVbga0TLfAQ\">said in the post<\/a>\u00a0published about a week before Election Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe estimate we&#8217;ve helped 4.4 million people register across our apps \u2014 based on conversion rates we calculated from states we&#8217;ve partnered with,\u201d Zuckerberg added.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook has been displaying \u201creliable election information\u201d at the top of its apps for all users of voting age in the U.S., including key deadlines and information on how to vote by mail, Zuckerberg said.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ccpqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzthdgphh_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ccpqvkhrmttfskstfgcmmfqqmhfzthtnnlmrkjzthdgphh_iccymmvhvwydgvnbcmnv.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1603836024656000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFTRFDOhdNp3tFYKBnlVaRgVzpaDA\">voting information center<\/a>\u00a0included a link for users to register to vote or check their voter registration status.<\/p>\n<p>The social media giant\u2019s push to include voting information ahead of this year\u2019s elections follows intense scrutiny the company faced over the spread of disinformation on its platform during the last presidential election.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook on Monday said it has&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28853,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28852\/revisions\/28853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}