Zuckerberg Announces Facebook Plan To Boost Voter Registration

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks about “News Tab” at the Paley Center, Friday, Oct. 25, 2019 in New York. The new feature in the Facebook mobile app will display headlines — and nothing else — from the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, BuzzFeed News, Business Insider, NBC, USA Today and the Los Angeles Times, among others.(AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

Facebook is rolling out a plan aimed at boosting voter registration ahead of the 2020 election.

Mark Zuckerberg wrote an op-ed for USA Today today outlining plans for a ‘Voting Information Center’ he says will reach 160 million people and help register over 4 million new voters.

Zuckerberg called it “the largest voting campaign in American history” ahead of an election “unlike any other”.

How are they doing it? Well, there is quite a bit from helping people register to putting out “authoritative information.”

Better to let Big Mark explain it himself:

Mark Zuckerberg announces ambitious voting information campaign on Facebook and Instagram, in USA TODAY column https://t.co/p26b0dmCmx

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) June 17, 2020