NYT Experiments with Facebook Messenger to Cover 2016 Presidential Election

Following The New York Times’s successful use of SMS storytelling during the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, The Times will once again experiment with two-way communication to cover the last few weeks of the presidential election.

Using Facebook Messenger for the first time, The NYT Politics Bot will give readers an opportunity to get the numbers that show where the election is headed and interact with an expert who can inform and explain what the day’s events mean for the race.

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