Your Goevernemnt Spent $1/2 Billion$ for FaceBook ‘Likes"

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  Iam posting this nauseating report as it appeared on Fox news. I hope for it to be wrong but I know is not, otherwise you would not be reading it here. But with the cuts this governemnt is made to programs that helped the lower middle class and the poor and homeless such things besides being silly they are extravagant and when you think more then you start thinking about the social media and the government being highly involved in it. Not enough that they listen to your phone calls and your emails and texts. We have lost something and I have a feeling we are never going to get it back.

  
  

  There is a fear the past administration instilled a fear in people that now many people believe that too much is not enough.  This is true otherwise this administration that came promissing the opposite would not allowed such things to go on as a part of prograams to spy on it’s own citizens. 

  
  

  Iam very aware that terrorism now seems to be home grown but because it is home grown it is easier to root out with out using such wide nets to catch every single part of communications that go on in this country. Most people would say, I have nothing to hide" I don’t care if they want to listen when I want to talk to grand ma”/ How about if you are accused of a crime you did not commit but the government already knows all the conversations with your lawyer? But really is more than that. This is a freedom we have enjoyed “free speach” and is not free is the government is listening to it to use it against you even if yiou are not planning a crime. Pri=vate conversations sometimes sound incriminating because we are trying to be funny or wise or wise ass to our peers. There is no context in such private onversations. A shame we have lost it.

  {Adam Gonzalez, Publisher}

  
  

  
  

  March 9, 2009: This photo shows State Department headquarters in Washington, D.C. (AP)

The State Department spent more than $630,000 on advertising campaigns to boost the number of Facebook "likes" for the agency's pages on the website, according to a report released by the agency's inspector general.

Between 2011 and March 2013, the agency's Bureau of International Information Programs used the funds on advertising to increase the number of fans for each of its four Facebook pages from 100,000 to more than 2 million, according to the May report.

The program was initiated after the bureau expanded the agency's presence on social media by setting up Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, and blogs targeted at foreign audiences, the report states.

The report found that many employees in the bureau were critical of the advertising campaigns and felt that the agency was "buying fans" who may have once clicked on an ad but have never engaged further.

Defenders of the initiative argued that advertising was needed to increase visibility because of the difficulty of finding a Facebook page using the website's general search tool, according to the report.

The inspector general's report recommends that the State Department bureau reduce spending by focusing its advertising on specific public diplomacy goals and not on raising the number of Facebook "likes" on the agency's pages.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said at Wednesday's daily press briefing with reporters that the agency currently spends $36,000 a year on the Facebook outreach program.

Psaki said the initiative continues to target "a broad range" of people "living internationally" and that the bureau behind the program is working to implement inspector general’s recommendations.

"We take the valuable feedback of the [Office of Inspector General] seriously, and we’re committed to addressing the recommendations and the concerned outline – concerns outlined in this assessment," Psaki told reporters.

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