Facebook once boasted of its ability to sway elections, now it has buried those pages
by Cory Doctorow from on (#3J6GZ)
Facebook maintains a repository of success stories trumpeting the advertisers who have attained greatness by buying Facebook ads; most of these are businesses, but until recently, Facebook also trumpeted Florida Governor Rick Scott's use of Facebook ads to "boost Hispanic voter turnout in their candidate's successful bid for a second term, resulting in a 22% increase in Hispanic support and the majority of the Cuban vote." (more")