Facebook and Elections: Are they doing enough?
Ellie Matthews
With this year's election being perhaps one of the most controversial in a long time, people often wonder how election integrity can be upheld in a world where we are constantly being targeted by advertisers.
Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are regularly flooded with both important political ads, and fake news. Social media has a huge influence on our lifestyles, but what place does it have when it comes to politics?
In the last week alone Kylie Jenner was able to drive more Americans to register to vote with a simple bikini picture on Instagram. “48k users came to the registration verification tool Monday from Instagram, out of a total of 319k users that used the tool on the Vote.org site,” said a spokesperson for Vote.org according to The Independent. This trans...