Facebook to pay US users to stop using its services until elections; all you need to know

In a bid to assess impact of social media on voting across US, Facebook Inc reportedly said that it will offer money to its users to stop using site, along with its or service Instagram. social media giant has been repeatedly accused of filtering out posts or simply not filtering content enough. It has been accused of moulding narratives that influence elections in any major country. 

However, Facebook has now decided to assess its role in upcoming US elections. According to international media reports, company has decided to ascertain role of social media giants and ir influence and refore Facebook has decided to offer $120 to its users to deactivate ir accounts at end of September. 

As per reports, last week, Facebook’s representative Liz Bourgeois h said that ‘users will be compensated’. She said that anyone who choose to opt-in, wher it completing surveys or deactivating FB or Instagram for a period of time, will be compensated. 

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‘Facebook and Instagram research initiative’

Under ‘new Facebook and Instagram research initiative’, company believes that nearly four lakh people will participate in opt-out mechanism. In a press note, Facebook informed that participants will be poached out on site of Instagram, with a link lingering on ir profiles asking m to participate in study. company has vowed to pursue an ‘objective, dispassionate, empirically grounded research’ to understand correlation between social media giants and democratic elections. 

Meanwhile, recent new comes after Facebook said that y would stop accepting new political s in final week of presidential elections campaign. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that re may not be enough time to contest new claims in final days of elections, prompting social media to decline new political or issue requests. “I generally believe best antidote to b speech is more speech, but in final days of an election re may not be enough time to contest new claims,” wrote Zuckerberg in a Facebook post.

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