Secret Service says it's investigating Facebook poll on Obama

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Source: CNN.Com

(CNN) – The social networking site Facebook on Monday pulled a third-party application that allows users to create polls after a site member built a poll asking if President Barack Obama should be killed.

The U.S. Secret Service, the agency assigned to protect the president, has launched an investigation, agency spokesman James Mackin said.

"As is usually the case, our vigilant users reported it to us first," Facebook spokesman Barry Schnitt told CNN. "The USSS (Secret Service) sent us an e-mail late this morning PDT asking us to take it down. At that point, it had already been removed and we let them know."

Schnitt said the application "was immediately suspended while the inappropriate content could be removed by the developer and until such time as the developer institutes better procedures to monitor their user-generated content."
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In this case, Schnitt said, the user made the poll asking whether Obama should be killed available to the general public.


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[peoli]

1. no way

[kestrel91316]

2. What do you mean, "no way"??? The story is factual.

I guarantee you, the Secret Service is looking up everybody who voted "yes" as we speak, and they will be getting visits.

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[fascisthunter]

4. good...

[gabby garcia]

5. locking

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