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Facebook Removes "Third Palestinian Intifada" Page

Facebook removed a page today titled “Third Palestinian Intifada” after a direct appeal to CEO Mark Zuckerberg by Israeli Cabinet Minister Yuli Edelstein. The page started out as a call for peaceful protest but had devolved into direct calls for violence by the page creators and its more than 350,000 fans, according to Andrew Noyes, Facebook’s public policy communications manager.

Kara Visits Facebook's Washington, D.C., Office and Talks Policy!

Yesterday, BoomTown paid a visit to the Washington, D.C., office of Facebook to meet its reps in the nation’s capital. Perhaps not surprisingly, the social networking site has a very small staff–for now, just a trio of on-the-young-side dudes–battening down the hatches from a funky office in a funky section of D.C., Dupont Circle, far from the tonier and lobbyist-rich K Street corridor.
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