White House Launches 'Presidential' Facebook Page

With just a year left in office, President Barack Obama has finally joined the ranks of countless heads of state and people around the world with an official page on Facebook, the social network with over a billion members. The White House on Monday launched the first-ever Facebook page for the U.S. presidency, sharing a video of Obama walking on the grounds of the White House backyard. In his first official post, Obama said he wanted the page to be "a place where we can have real...

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