Facebook wars: Yacimovich calls PM’s bluff

12.04.2012                      20.Nissan. 5772                     Chol Hamo'ed 4; Tag 5 des Omer

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Facebook wars: Yacimovich calls PM's bluff

Labor leader's staff finds most of Netanyahu's online fans are from the US, thousands are from Indonesia.

Labor leader Shelly Yacimovich’s staff attacked Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s “manipulative” claim to be the most popular politician on Facebook on Monday night, accusing the prime minister of inflating his online numbers and pointing out that most of his fans are from abroad.
On Monday, a spokeswoman for the Likud sent a message that Netanyahu had passed 200,000 “likes” on his personal Facebook Timeline, while all other Israeli politicians lag far behind. The message pointed out that the social network is “a tool to connect the nation and its leader”….