Next wave of activist lobbying: 'Hijack' Congress members' Facebook profiles

Advocacy campaigns have found a new way to get noticed by lawmakers: taking over their Facebook profiles and bombarding them with tweets about the cause. The Enough Project at the Center for American Progress, which is advocating for human rights for women and children in Congo, has asked supporters to "politely hijack" the Facebook pages of members of Congress. The campaign is targeting 10 members, blanketing their profiles with pleas for them to sign on as co-sponsors to the Conflict Minerals Trade Act, which would monitor the global trade of goods that fuel violence in Congo. The so-called "profile hijacking" could be the next wave of citizen lobbying, as Facebook gives activists easy access to members' official profiles.