Facebook is running surveys asking users if posts on Election day about protestors, violence at polling stations, or COVID-19 spreading at polling stations, would make them more or less likely to vote.

Anyone have thoughts on why FB is doing this and how they'd use the data?

The last ? is particularly strange, asking users to assess if hypothetical posts would suppress voter turnout.

Hypothetically, let's say users said posts about "violence at polling stations" discouraged them from voting. Does that mean FB would stop showing posts about violence?

Two other questions attempt to deal w/ misinformation and ask if a user would be more or less likely to discuss political or social issues if they found out a post about protestors or violence at polling stations was false.

Here’s a response from a Facebook PR rep. I’ve followed up with some more questions. https://twitter.com/liz_shepherd/status/1283925950636277761?s=21 https://twitter.com/liz_shepherd/status/1283925950636277761