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Facebook will pay some users to deactivate their accounts ahead of 2020 election

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MENLO PARK, Calif. - Facebook will pay some people to deactivate their accounts for a period of time as part of its effort to better understand the impact of Facebook and Instagram on society during the 2020 election.The social media giant announced Aug.

31 a new partnership with 17 independent researchers to study the role its social media platforms have “on key political attitudes and behaviors” during elections.“To continue to amplify all that is good for democracy on social media, and mitigate against that which is not, we need more objective, dispassionate, empirically grounded research,” Facebook said in a blog post.“We need to better understand whether social media makes us more polarized as a society, or if it largely reflects the.

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