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The ABC/Facebook Presedential Debates: Good Debates, Not Much Facebook

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

For four hours last night, ABC provided a continuous broadcast of Republican and Democratic debates live from New Hampshire. Late last year we saw the YouTube/CNN debates that enabled YouTube users to present questions directly to the presidential candidates. While filtered, it was the first ... Continue reading »

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  • Jimmy

    1 year ago

    Personally I thought it was a bit ironic that a company who had spent the week defending/arguing its ability to quite undemocratically delete a person account and all their collected data to be a sponsor of perhaps one of the oldest democratic institutions we have ...
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  • Charlie

    1 year ago

    Of course it wasn't a good integration.

    A "Facebook" debate would work well if done similarly to the youtube debate. Have people submit questions before and during the debate. Have a ranking system working in real time that lets users bump the best questions to the top of the heap. The realtime nature of the system could allow followup questions to be quickly thrown back at a candidate later in the same debate.

    Apply instant community judgements of candidate responses. If a guy avoids a question and gives an irrelevant response, in the judgement of the community, have a big neon sign come up somewhere that says, "Avoiding the question!"

    And since it's facebook, it'd be interesting to use the social graph somehow. Sure, you could have it show a user what his friends are saying, but I'm not sure how a social effect would get to the candidates...
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  • Yatti

    1 year ago

    I just laughed when I saw Facebook logo on tv.. That was jokes..
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