joyce vance and david ki kirkpatrick, wrote the facebook effect as someone who has followed this closely. what is your take-away how late and lazy and sloppy they ve been to deal with they are role in this? lazy is not a word i would apply to leaders of facebook, but i think they re late to recognize the degree to which the systems that have arisen organically over the course of many years could be so deeply manipulated in ways they don t seem to have anticipated. that s shocking to me. in that sense very surprise. not lazy about policing journalism? a huge platform for sharing information and their attitude initially was we don t have responsibility. naïve. didn t anticipate the degree to
to answer any question you could possibly ask. but facebook represents something different. the idea that the internet and technology can bring people together and together the community you choose cure rates your entire journey through life. but is this a real shift in the motion important tool in the world or a fad that s peaked? can facebook live up to the hype? and if it really is a paradigm shift, can facebook dominate it? as no other network can, we ve brought together cnn s best team covering this story. dan simon at facebook headquarters in menlo park, california, where mark zuckerberg remotely rang the opening bell on the nasdaq on friday. alison kosik, and flees a taylor at the new york stock exchange where she s been talking to traders. and three men who invest for a living, we ll ask them if facebook is a good investment for you. ed reilly, ted shapiro, an early facebook investor, and matt mccall, president of the penn financial group. dan, let s start with yo
at sea pleading for help from a passing cruise ship but allegedly ignored. now the sole survivor of that horrific 28-day ordeal takes matters into his own hands. we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the 2012 campaign ad wars are threatening to take an lig new turn by dredging up the past. so far mitt romney is rejecting a proposed anti-obama advertising offensive that would have brought back a controversial figure from the last presidential campaign. here s jim acosta. it was a pitch to tear down the president laid out in this proposal obtained by the new york times for a multi-media ad campaign that recommends, quote, hitting barack right between the eyes. entitled the defeat of barack hussein obama, it proposes tv spots featuring jeremiah wright in the clips that almost derailed his previous campaign. ending spending says it received the proposal but rejected it. we ve got to
wasserman shut who is standing by live. a facebook co-founder unfriends the united states of america on giving us his u.s. citizenship could save him hundreds of millions of taxes when the company goes public. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com democrats have been betting on a big gender gap to give president obama an edge in the november election, they ve accused republicans of a war on women and president obama has been going all out to kort female voters, but suddenly a new poll suggests it s mitt romney who may have an edge among women. let s go to brianna keilar. should the president be worried that he s potentially losing his critically important edge with women? reporter: wolf, it may be too soon to tell. these poll numbers may not tell the entire story. if we take a look at the poll by cbs news and new york times it does show romney 2 percentage points ahead. one reason to look at this very carefully is because ot
ron paul ending active campaign in hissed by for the republican nomination. the thing is, he s still going after delegates. yes, mitt romney aside, he s working the state conventions. we ve got more on that in a moment. but first, for the second time in a week, tongues are wagging over an edgy magazine cover. have you seen the latest? it s newsweek saying president obama is the first gay president. it his the response to presiden obama s interview last week with abc news. last week, the mom enough cover was really provocative. anyone who is living in a cave and just came out, b there was the cover there. the country was talking about this. my question for you, is this a response? were you trying to notch it up, you eknow, a bit, to try to recapture some of that interest out there between your two magazines? ashleigh, i don t think so, actually. what we wanted to do with this piece. we knew with andrew sullivan writing, and he s one of the chief intellectual officers with