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tried a radical experiment. a website to accept political donations. a decade later, internet social media has completely changed the political sphere. who is barack obama? the answer is right there on my facebook page. reporter: 76% of congress uses social media now, and well over half have facebook pages. but while politicians try to harness the power of a few million virtual friends it is the citizen who has the most to gain in this brave new world. nine out of ten videos watched during the 2008 presidential campaign that mentioned obama and mccain were produced by citizens trying to influence each other. so the last people to arrive at the party are the politicians themselves. reporter: sparked by a single angry voice, facebook can be a lever of revolution. we ve seen it in iran and myanmar. when leftist guerillas in colombia let a little boy die in captivity, oscar morales poured his outrage into a facebook page. just today we gathered the support of more than 10,000 fol
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good evening. president obama took seven lnutes out of his lunch hour today to tamp down a controversy rooted in one of america s ldest divisions, race. and one of its newest diversions. he reach viral videos racing over the about t. he reached out to the black federal worker who lost her job this week after talking about something that happened 24 years ago. it was a story that seemed at first blush to reveal racism in obama s administration. that s now how it looked 24 turs later and that s why the hirleyent called shirley sherrod as say he was sorry and convince her to return to the agriculture department. the president talked to us, too, de we re going to have that in a moment. at we begin tonight with jake tapper at the white house. cccccc reporter: good evening, good evening, e president spokht. president obama spoke with ccrley sherrod, the former stice.lture department employee, obae resignation the administration sought and then wased an injustice. president obama
and it s just beginning. our series, social networking revolution. good evening. president obama took seven minutes out of his lunch hour today to tamp down a controversy rooted in one of america s oldest decisiold e est divisions. race. he reached out to the black federal worker who lost her job this week after talking about something that happened 24 years ago. it was a story that seemed at first blush to reveal racism in obama s administration. that s now how it looked 24 hours later and that s why the president called shirley sherrod to say he was sorry and convince her to return to the agriculture department. the president talked to us, too, we re going to have that in a moment. but we begin tonight with jake tapper at the white house. jake? reporter: good evening, george. that s right. the president spoke with sherrod, the former agriculture department employee, whose resignation the administration sought and then called an injustice. president obama today told sh