Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Investigation about a poll on Facebook by US Secret Service


A user-generated poll posted on the social networking site Facebook leads to vulnerable position that asks if President Barack Obama should be assassinated.




The investigation is going on in Washington and Secret Service agent Darrin Blackford quoted “ we are aware of it and we will take the appropriate investigative steps” to the press. Nearly 731 users took part in the user-generated poll before Facebook removed it upon officials learning of its existence and due to the disable of application, results of the survey were not available. The screen shot of the concerned poll is captured by Huffington Post. It asks, “Should Obama be killed?” The possible answers are “yes”, “maybe”, “If he cuts my health care” and “no”.
Barry Schnitt, Director of Policy Communications for Facebook  and Secret Service spokesman Ed Donovan by working together on the issue confirming to CBS News said, “The third-party applications that enabled an individual user to create the offensive poll was brought to our attention this morning”.
see the poll below used in Facebook --


He added, “Both the user and his application was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed and in the mean time monitoring their user-generated content with better procedures  by the developer has taking place. We’re working with the US Secret Service but they will need to provide any details of their investigation”.

2 comments:

  1. i was the one who made that application of obama....kidding....well, maybe the one who creates that want to be funny but ends up offensive..

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