Snapchat is looking to help America's youth become potential Washington, D.C., power players with its latest feature, Run for Office Mini.
A Senate subcommittee on Tuesday heard from Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee, who claims the social media giant manipulated content it knew was harmful to young users.Snapchat is looking to help America's youth become potential Washington, D.C., power players with its latest feature, Run for Office Mini.
Run for Office Mini uses data from BallotReady, which is described as providing"personalized, nonpartisan information to voters in all 50 states"Narissa Ayoub, a 24-year-old law student at the University of Detroit Mercy and a legal intern with dreams to run for office one day, said she appreciates how the feature makes the process of looking into running for office more accessible.
Through the feature, Snapchat users can type in their ZIP code and select the issues that mean the most to them, such as education, civil rights and more. The app then narrow down the political offices that overlap with those issues and provides users with information about those offices, including who currently holds that seat, their background, age requirement to run for that seat and the upcoming election date for the position.
"Being the candidate yourself is something that's super intimidating," Ayoub said."I think that this new Snapchat feature ... to give people those tools that they need to run for office is absolutely invaluable."
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