Obamagate?
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Ordinarily Publius Pundit would not concern itself with workaday scandals in the presidential election campaigns, but this one bears mention because it involves the blogosphere. The Techpresident blog reports that Barack Obama may have been given preferential treatment by the powerful Facebook website when it launched a new operating platform. Techpresident states:
When Platform launched, Obama was the only candidate with an application. Why didn't John Edwards, Hillary Clinton, John McCain, Ron Paul, or anyone else get in on the possibility of reaching 20 million or more Facebook users and potential voters? Almost all of the candidates have Facebook profiles, MySpace pages, and YouTube channels, yet Obama was the only candidate with an application on Platform's opening day. While these applications aren't that difficult to make and might take about eight hours to build, they aren't something a coder puts together in an afternoon. This means that they had knowledge of Platform before it launched and had been given access to Facebook's API in time to build an application, yet it's clear from our reporting that the other campaigns weren't contacted. Why wouldn't Facebook offer this opportunity to all of the campaigns?
Click through to read the excellent extended analysis by Techpresident.
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