How Facebook Town Hall Works
Just go right to the website and enter your address to get a simple, easy-to-read list of your local, state and federal representatives, from your county council member all the way to the POTUS himself. The service offers you the option to call, email, or check up on the specific Facebook page for each of these representatives.
Boosting Civic Engagement
Mashable reported on the service, explaining more about how it operates: The result is likely to be a new, stronger, and more effective form of civic engagement, powered by the internet’s biggest social network. As of the fourth quarter of 2016, Facebook had 1.86 billion monthly active users. Which means that Facebook Town Hall represents perhaps the largest-scale political education of its kind. The feature is integrated into the Facebook News Feed. If you choose to like or comment on a post by one of your local representatives, you’ll see a way to contact your representative after the post.” Read more about politics here on Tech.Co
