Study: Facebook increases voter turnout

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Online peer pressure has a strong influence on getting out the vote, according to a new study released on Wednesday.

About one third of a million more people showed up to vote in the United States during the 2010 midterm elections because of a single Facebook message posted on Election Day, according to researchers at the University of California in San Diego (UCSD).

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