Thursday, September 10, 2020

Reuters, Facebook partnering on election night

 

Reuters has a new a partnership with Facebook to produce live U.S. election night results for social media users.   

During election night, data delivered by Reuters will be shown on Facebook’s Voting information Center and shared in push notifications. This will include live election results charting real-time outcomes including vote tabulation, exit polls and winner projections from the National Election Pool (NEP), a consortium of ABC News, CBS News, CNN, NBC News and Edison Research, says Reuters.

“We’re partnering with Reuters and the National Election Pool to provide authoritative information about election results,” said Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. “We’ll show this in the Voting Information Center so it’s easily accessible, and we’ll notify people proactively as results become available. Importantly, if any candidate or campaign tries to declare victory before the results are in, we’ll add a label to their post educating that official results are not yet in and directing people to the official results,” he said.

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