Obama targets youth, tech crowd at Facebook town hall

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Source: CNN

Palo Alto, California (CNN) -- President Barack Obama wasn't just in the news Wednesday. He's also in your news feed.

The White House held a "town hall" at Facebook's headquarters, where the president answered questions before a small audience about the economy and the federal deficit. The event was broadcast live, available to Facebook's more than 500 million users.

Facebook representatives chose questions from among the queries submitted in advance by audience members and by people tuning in on the Web. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg moderated.

After some palling around between the president and the 26-year-old computer whiz, Zuckerberg offered questions submitted online that gelled with Obama's key talking points and victories, such as health care and education. Facebook employees, who made up the majority of the audience, were chosen to ask several questions.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/POLITICS/04/20/obama.facebook/index.html

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