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From: soufron <soufron@gmail.com> Date: 14 febbraio 2012 14:09:41 GMT-05:00 To: a2k@lists.keionline.org Subject: [A2k] Facebook France helping Sarkozy... ? O_o Reply-To: soufron@gmail.com

Dear Guys,

some of our French newspapers are reporting from France that Facebook France has been informally assisting Nicolas Sarkozy's web campaign team so as to give him some developer time, allow him to access advanced functions, and create a Timeline on his Fan Page - a world premiere bringing tons of good press to his campaign.

Journalists and inside sources named a Facebook executive named Julien Codorniou. For this purpose, he has been working directly with Nicolas Princen, Sarkozy's official web advisor and Loic Le Meur, who is also very close to the President.

Their aim was to achieve a good media coverage for Nicolas Sarkozy, and have him depicted as an advanced user of Internet communication - which you and Marc Zuckerberg must know is far from the truth.

This implication of Facebook within the French presidential campaign is unacceptable. If they have really been working on such a feature for weeks or months, they should have offered it equally to all the candidates, and planned its release at the same time.

I am aware that Facebook is no traditional media. However, I am surprised that they would take sides in a presidential campaign by providing technical and intellectual support which may give a competitive advantage to one of the candidates. As a result, the staff of François Hollande - a democrat and the current favorite - already decided to cancel a meeting they had planned with the French representatives of Facebook.

Who to forward it to at Facebook US...?

I am sure they would be very surprised to learn that some of their people are using their company's resources to support a republican candidate in a local election...

... or maybe a story for you? Or any help you could think of?

Here is an article about it in "L'Express": http://www.lexpress.fr/actualite/politique/facebook-roule-t-il-pour-sarkozy_...

And it will be in "Le Canard Enchainé" tomorrow morning.

Best regards,

Jean-Baptiste Soufron

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