Facebook is launching its first nationwide voter registration drive in an attempt to urge its users in the U.S. to get out to vote.
Starting today, a message will be displayed atop the News Feed reminding users who are aged 18 and over to register to vote. After testing a similar voter registration drive on California-based users during the primaries, Facebook is expanding the feature to target people nationwide.
When you click on the colorful “Register” banner on your News Feed over the next four days you will be redirected to the government’s vote.USA.gov portal, where you will be guided through the registration process. As is the norm on Facebook, once you’ve registered you’ll be able to share a status with your network. The platform will be hoping that communal interaction between users will help spread the word and drive up voter registration.
“We thought we had a unique ability and responsibility to show people this reminder that they should be checking their registration so they can participate in the election,” Katie Harbath, Facebook’s director of government outreach, told USA Today.
Facebook has been selectively nudging users to vote since 2008, and the company claims its efforts have resulted in 1.5 million people participating in the electoral process.
It’s not the only social platform to tap into its active user base this election season. Earlier this week, Snapchat kicked off a public service campaign on its app in partnership with non-profit Democracy Works’ TurboVote. The tool allowed users to check their eligibility to vote, and to register, directly within Snapchat.
A number of celebrities were also tapped to create campaign promos, including Jared Leto, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, and Jimmy Fallon. YouTube is also currently running a #voteIRL campaign on its platform, which is aimed at younger viewers, and utilizes short clips by the site’s influential creators to illustrate how easy it is to register to vote.
Discord is trying to push more visibility on the internet for some of its biggest communities, and there's a good chance your messages could end up in a Google Search. The platform is preparing to make conversations from certain public servers searchable on the web, so there's a privacy setting you might want to check before the rollout begins.
According to Discord's official announcement, the changes will roll out in two stages. Starting November 16, qualifying servers will have public web pages featuring automated summaries of conversations. By mid-December, individual messages from eligible public channels could also appear word-for-word in Google and other search engines.
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What are people actually doing when they’re maxxing?