Secret Service Investigating Facebook Poll
The U.S. Secret Service investigates all threats against the life of the president, including a recent user-generated Facebook poll that asked whether the president should be killed. The social networking giant has disabled the survey, which, according to CNN, carried the possible answers "yes," "maybe," "if he cuts my health care" and "no." -- PS
The U.S. Secret Service investigates all threats against the life of the president, including a recent user-generated Facebook poll that asked whether the president should be killed. The social networking giant has disabled the survey, which, according to CNN, carried the possible answers “yes,” “maybe,” “if he cuts my health care” and “no.”
For the record: The poll was not created by Facebook, or even the third-party developers that created the poll program that made it possible. This was strictly a user-generated fiasco. Generate your own fiasco in the comments below (just no threats, please). — PS
[Thanks, Kassandra]
Your support matters…CNN:
“As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first,” Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told CNN. “The USSS [Secret Service] sent us an e-mail late this morning PDT asking us to take it down. At that point, it had already been removed, and we let them know.”
Schnitt said the application “was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content.”
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