Jeff Chester

Center for Digital Democracy

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Executive Director of the Center for Digital Democracy, a nonprofit Internet consumer advocacy group based in Washington, DC

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Facebook now has 600 million members, but President Obama caught on to its power a long time ago. Today, he conducted an Internet town hall from Facebook's headquarters in Palo Alto.

Facebook and Obama, Who's Courting Whom?

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