Facebook President is French. Almost.
A few weeks ago a french guy I have never heard about contacts me on my cell in San Francisco.
"Hello, I am a candidate for the election of the President of Facebook, you need to support me" says the guy.
"What ? Who are you ? What is this ? Sounds like a joke to me." - I say
"You need to support me and your Country, it is very important that France wins ! Please talk about me in Facebook, blog about it" he says
"Wait, just checking, who are you on Facebook and how many friends do you have there ?" I ask
long pause. no answer. the guy starts bulshitting again. I politely tell him I do not have time for him and politely end the conversation.
The rest of the story is famous in France. Most journalists got trapped and he went on all major press titles and main TV shows in France. On our equivalent of CNN, LCI, he said "I can reach twice as many people as Sarkozy online" as he claimed to have obtained the support of very well known jet set celebrities (and he did, for some of them). Here are many screenshots of the French press and TV courtesy of Gilles Klein.
Another way to illustrate that blogs and social software can get closer to reveal a big lie: blog comments would have killed this immediately. Now to be honest, I am very impressed by the guy hability to get such a huge national coverage on a lie like this. Amazing.
On the "Grand Journal" of Canal Plus
On i>television
On the blog of french journalist
more here
