Facebook forms a Political Action Committee

Amid a furor over its recent redesign, and with privacy concerns tailing its every move, Facebook has filed paperwork to start its own political action committee.

Amid a furor over its recent redesign, and with privacy concerns tailing its every move, Facebook has filed paperwork to start its own political action committee.
After campaigning over the last month on social media, Rep. Michele Bachmann secured enough votes from followers to be included in TIME magazine’s list of the top 100 most influential people of 2011. Controversial conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh wrote the profile on Bachmann for the magazine, and Bachmann is the only 2012 hopeful to make the list.
Former Sen. Norm Coleman’s recent comment that the future of the GOP lies in the “ethernet” — first reported on by the Minnesota Independent — gets an honorable mention in Talking Points Memo’s list of the “
A Facebook group is hoping three days of phonecalls to Norm Coleman’s campaign office may convince the former senator to give up his lawsuit and let Al Franken get started in the Senate. The “Norm’s Gotta Go…

A popular but embattled social networking service may still have PR problems concerning privacy — and so might its CEO.
Late last week a computer security expert reported that even if Facebook users…

In what interest groups are calling a victory for personal privacy, the popular social networking site Facebook.com said Thursday night it would make changes to its new Beacon service.
The service, which collects…
When you use Facebook, the popular social networking service, do you know where your personal data might end up?
The rapidly expanding site, recently valued at $15 billion, has continually added features that allow users…