Snapchat introduces tool to help young people run for office
Trinity Sanders has big plans once she graduates from high school.
First, Sanders, who is from upstate New York, wants to go to college and then law school to become a civil rights lawyer. From there, she wants to run for office to become a U.S. senator.
To help her achieve her political goals, she said, she might look to an unlikely resource: Snapchat.
Snapchat released a tool Tuesday called Run for Office to help young people who have political aspirations learn what steps they'll need to take to run in local elections.
"I know that there's many people that I personally use Snapchat with, so to be able to do it right from our phones, yeah, sign me up," said Sanders, 17.
Run for Office will help eligible Snapchat users, many of whom skew younger, find local races they are eligible for that pertain to their interests, the platform said.
"If Snapchatters want to make sure that the issues they care most about are represented by leadership, then they need to run," Sofia Gross, Snap's head of policy partnerships and social impact, said.
https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/snapchat-introduces-tool-help-young-people-run-office-n1280708
