Dismal voter turnout may doom Facebook's quasi-democracy
Update, 12:10 p.m. PT: Well, it's past noon PT. Facebook hasn't officially called it yet, but a look at the Facebook app tallying votes, show only 588,923 votes cast. That's not nearly enough to make the decision of users stick.
So much for a quasi-democratic Facebook. So far, the social network's users haven't cast anywhere near enough votes to preserve users' ability to veto Facebook's policy changes.
Facebook users have until noon today to vote on Facebook's recently proposed policy changes relating to data use and privacy. Unless at least … Read more