Facebook struggles to accommodate political networking

Mixing high school friends, siblings and great aunts with party press secretaries, Garth Turner, and John Baird, might not be the best mix.

TORONTO–Australia's new Prime Minister Kevin Rudd wasn't particularly pleased during the recent election campaign when a couple hundred of his Facebook friends dropped by for dinner unannounced. A media stunt, to be sure, but one that nonetheless highlighted the political implications of so...

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