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New Jersey Journalist Uses Only Facebook To Win Local Election

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 16:44:52 +0000

Power to the people. At least the people on Facebook. That’s the sentiment shared by Jim Cook, online editor at the South Jersey Times, who launched a last-minute bid to join the Woodstown-Pilesgrove Board of Education election in Pilesgrove Township, N.J., with no money, only 24 hours, and relying solely on Facebook posts shared with his friends.

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Facebook App Proves A Game-Changer for Obama Campaign

Jennifer Moire — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 14:57:12 +0000

Answer: What is “targeted sharing” on Facebook? The question: How was the Obama campaign going to reach the millions of young people under 29 who had no listed phone numbers and flew under the radar — just out of reach of pollsters and volunteers — using the cellular network to communicate?

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Facebook Encourages Users To Vote In 2012 Election

Jennifer Moire — Tue, 06 Nov 2012 12:54:25 +0000

It’s Election Day 2012, and with democracy in full swing, Facebook wants users to know how they can participate. Facebook users will have a hard time missing the reminder.

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Study: Single Facebook Post On Election Day 2010 Led To 340,000 Voters

David Cohen — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 14:47:15 +0000

How does Facebook affect elections? According to a new study led by the University of California, San Diego, a single post on Election Day 2010, Nov. 2 of that year, drove some 340,000 users of the social network to their polling stations.

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