As part of Facebook Election latest study on how social media impacts democracy, the business seems paying users to log off of its products ahead of the 2020 US presidential election, according to new screenshots published by Washington Post reporter Elizabeth Dwoskin on Thursday.
Previously today, Facebook announced that it was partnering with outside researchers to study the impact its social networks products have on society during the upcoming US presidential election. Facebook expects around 200,000 to 400,000 users will decide in to the task. Once they have actually opted in, the business will have the ability to see how they connect with its products, consisting of both Facebook and Instagram.
” To continue to enhance all that benefits democracy on social networks, and reduce versus that which is not, we need more unbiased, dispassionate, empirically grounded research study,” Facebook discussed in a post “That’s why today we are announcing a new research collaboration to better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on essential political attitudes and habits throughout the United States 2020 elections.”
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So Facebook is now going to pay individuals to deactivate their IG and FB accounts prior to Election Day. It’s part of the research study experiment reveal Monday but WOW. This notification went out today. pic.twitter.com/tV7DAw8F5I
— Elizabeth Dwoskin (@lizzadwoskin) September 3, 2020
The screenshots posted by The c Thursday show an Instagram pop-up asking users to pick just how much cash they ‘d be willing to get in order to deactivate their Instagram and Facebook accounts ahead of the election. Facebook provides the alternatives of $10, $15, and $20 each week as some users would be ask to shut down for one week while others could be ask to leave the platform approximately six weeks total.
A Facebook spokesperson validated that the company would be paying users who total surveys or shut down as part of its research study Thursday. “Anybody who selects to decide in– whether it’s completing studies or shutting down FB or IG for a time period– will be compensated,” Liz Bourgeous, a Facebook representative, stated in a tweet Thursday. “This is relatively basic for this kind of scholastic research.”
According to Facebook, the business doesn’t expect to release the findings of its research until a minimum of the middle of next year.