I've seen this posted everywhere like it's some grand conspiracy.
What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
What is the impact of it being Super Tuesday? Are people worried they can't vote without social media?
This one is already decided though. Biden on the Democrat side, Trump on the Republican. If anything it might hurt the Trump side a bit, as people may not realize that the Supreme Court only yesterday ruled states can not block him.
Can't you register the same day as the voting happens? Seems utterly stupid that you have to register to vote to begin with, but if it's a requirement, you should at least be able to register the day of the voting.
And states like Texas often have nearly one-party rule, so the primary pretty much is the election.
Because of the party that currently owns the non-urban parts of Texas, I usually vote in that primary, despite not voting for its candidates in the general elections.
Shutting down social media has gone to the top of the list for regimes either "attempting to fabricate positive election results" or "attempting to combat the spread of misinformation about elections".
More sympathetically, for better or for worse (definitely the latter) there will be people trying to look up election information ("what are my local polling hours", "who is on my ballot") on social media websites, who will now not be able to be guided to the correct information.
I'm not very conspiracy-minded but this does smell a little weird.
At the very least, "there's a big event in the country of one of our biggest userbases, maybe hold off on risky deploys until tomorrow"
If the main social media used by liberals goes down, while the one used by Trump (forgot what it's called) stays up, surely that is an advantage for him?
For example, you can then pose the conspiracy that the fact it was Russian interference conspiracy was a conspiracy to justify more social media policing during the real election.