U.S. President Barack Obama, is now the first ruler to visit the Facebook headquarters where he will participate in an open meeting by the network which has millions of participants.
The chief executive of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, will moderate the hearing at the offices of the company in Palo Alto (California) that will be broadcast live and direct both the Facebook site and by the White House on the Internet.
Obama invited the public to participate and said in a message released by the White House, he hopes "people pause in their task of 'inclusion of friends' and 'exclusion of friends' on Facebook and join the conversation. "
communications director of the White House, Dan Pfeiffer, said the decision to use the network "is an effort to reach audiences that might not get your information by traditional means newspapers or television channels.
Obama, who has announced his intention to run for reelection in 2012, said that interested in debating, in this "dialogue with citizens", his proposal for reducing the fiscal deficit United States.
After the visit to Facebook, Obama will go to San Francisco for three fund-raising meetings in which their wealthy supporters paid $ 35,800 (about 24,650 euros) per place setting.
Source: Washington, (AFP ).
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