The goal was to find out whether the “voter button” actually got out the vote. And could Facebook potentially distort election results simply by increasing voter participation among only a certain group of voters – namely, Facebook users? Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty ImagesThe Facebook employee who first exported the “voter button” outside the US is the London-based Californian Elizabeth Linder. “The first time I used the ‘voter button’ was in Scotland,” says Linder. And yet there is indeed one public announcement of Facebook’s plans to implement the “voter button” worldwide, from 2014.

Source: The Guardian April 15, 2018 06:56 UTC