Facebook Feature Plagued With Outdated Headlines; GOP Ones Skew Negative

Published: August 8, 2007, 10:54 am

Tags: 2008 presidential, campaigns amp amp elections, conservatives amp amp republicans, libertarians, barack obama, online media, facebook, newsvine

While looking at a friend's profile on Facebook today shortly after 10 a.m., I spotted her "Election '08" application which proudly lists her support for the Republican Party in 2008. Immediately below are three of the "latest politics headlines" on Newsvine.com, the Web site that created and manages the Facebook application. Yet the headlines were hardly the "latest" and had nothing to do with the 2008 race or its principals. What's more, all three headlines carried downbeat news: Ford Recalling 3.6 Million Vehicles Top Marine Sees Gear-Provision Flaws Hiring Cools in July; Jobless Rate Up For contrast I looked at the profiles of some friends who also have the application. Only one Democratic friend of mine has it on his profile, and his bears support for Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.). In his "Election '08" box were a different set of headlines, all having something to do with Obama, although they too were old, coming from August 2 and

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