Our latest way to bring your government to you — from whitehouse.gov
Why we’re open-sourcing the code for the first-ever government bot on Facebook Messenger.
Excerpt:
On August 26th, President Obama publicly responded to a Facebook message sent to him by a citizen—a first for any president in history. Since then, he has received over one and a half million Facebook messages, sent from people based all around the world.
While receiving messages from the public isn’t a recent phenomenon—every day, the White House receives thousands of phone calls, physical letters, and submissions through our online contact form—being able to contact the President through Facebook has never been possible before. Today [10/14/16], it’s able to happen because of the first-ever government bot on Facebook messenger.
Also see:
- Anyone can chat with the White House… through a bot — from yahoo.com
With the new presidential “bot” on Facebook Messenger, users can send messages, 10 of which will be read each day by President Barack Obama