Is Facebook the new political town hall?
Facebook is rapidly swallowing up the news business. Will political debate be next?
Candidates for the U.S. presidential nomination are turning to Facebook to reach potential voters, and the social network is happy to oblige.
“We’re excited about the election, because we think we give politicians and people a really compelling way to interact,” COO Sheryl Sandberg said on Facebook's quarterly earnings call Wednesday.
“If you wanted to feel like you were interacting with someone running for office before, you had to go to a town hall meeting, and increasingly that’s happening on Facebook,” she said.
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