Kinda cute:

http://politics.slashdot.org/story/13/03/05/1334213/shooting-yourself-in-the-foot-21st-century-style

   -- Owen

quote:
*"Right now there's an election happening in British Columbia.  A desperate
government<http://bciconcoclast.blogspot.ca/2013/03/what-is-rock-bottom-for-bc-liberals.html>
is
flooding Facebook with "Sponsored Post"
spam<https://www.facebook.com/BCBudget?ref=stream>
 (example <https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10151349758273241>)
extolling the wonderful things that they plan to do if re-elected. There's
one problem though. Every one of these posts is followed by hundreds of
extremely negative comments added by people who either dislike the party in
question, or Facebook spam in general. Desperate moderators are trying to
control the 'discussion,' but seem to have no hope of doing so. What was
thought to be a cool marketing tool has turned into a public relations
disaster. Is this the worst use of social media in an election?"*
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