Facebook Kill Obama Poll – The Secret Service is investigating a “Kill Obama poll” that a user posted on Facebook as part of the health care reform debate.
The “Facebook Kill Obama Poll” was disabled by Facebook as soon as they became aware of the third-party content, but many users felt the poll was innocuous enough to be protected free speech just like the Holocaust deniers who flourish on Facebook.
The poll reportedly asked respondents “Should Obama be killed?” The choices: No, Maybe, Yes, and Yes if he cuts my health care.
“We take any threat against our protectees very seriously, and we will investigate it thoroughly,” Darrin Blackford, a Secret Service spokesman, told reporters. “We will look at it, take the necessary steps, and work this thing backwards, hopefully to where it originated.”
Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt said the poll was apparently created over the weekend and Facebook took action when users alerted the company to its existence.
“We got contacted by the Secret Service, who said, ‘Hey, take that down.’ We told them we took it down an hour ago,” Schnitt said.
“We’re working with the U.S. Secret Service, but they’ll need to provide any details of their investigation,” Schnitt told reporters.
And that’s the latest news on the Facebook Kill Obama Poll.
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September 29th, 2009 at 9:32 am
I am a total newb about this. Appreciated getting some important details I was missing.
October 17th, 2009 at 9:33 am
Guess ACORN isn’t turning out the voters for this poll…