come sunday casey anthony may be a free woman but her legal troubles, they re far from over. today the folks at equusearch served herb with a $112,000 lawsuit. the volunteer organization says it wants to recover the money that it spent looking for her dead daughter caylee. although she was acquitted of first degree murder, a jury found anthony guilty of four counts of lying to police about her daughter whereabouts. and it looks like casey s mom cindy will not be facing perjury charges as some had thought. this is despite accusations of lying on the stand during her daughter s murder trial. and although her trial is over, casey anthony remains a really hot topic when it comes to the web and blogs. thousands of people continue to hound the acquitted murder suspect online, setting up pages where visitors can do everything from curse her name to track her every move on the days that she s released from jail. so what s behind all of this facebook fascination and the twitter trending? rebecc
campaign director for change.org and she joins us with some insight on this subject. rebecca, it really has captured the nation. i just want to give the folks an idea of just how much clout casey anthony s name careys on social media sites. this will show what twitter was doing. the chart shows what s known as the hash tag activity on twitter in the final days of her trial. look at that. we look at the spike that came in on the day of the verdict. that s just from people using casey anthony s name in these hash tags. what does it tell us about this case specifically and how social media has really altered the fabric of how the public s emotional landscape can be played out? well, you know, the disappearance and death of a child is just unimaginebly difficult. and what we re seeing is so many americans, and particularly parents and grandparents, who have been really strongly affected by this case. and they re looking for a way to respond. and to communicate with one another, and with
beyond just that newspaper. today, there was a little bit of political drama. there was supposed to be a motion passed that was going to be passed overwhelmingly in parliament, urging murdoch to pull out of this deal, and instead, news corporation came out and beat them to it, with this statement that they were going to pull out. it would have been something of a humiliation, and certainly a strong signal to them that they had very little, if any political support left in this country. thomas? nbc s stephanie gosk in london for us. thanks for the update. the big question, will cindy anthony face perjury charges for that controversial testimony at her daughter casey s murder trial? we ll explore that and the outrage outside the orlando courthouse has certainly faded but thousands of people are keeping their anger alive about the verdict of casey anthony. this time on the web, how social media is keeping the acquittal so much on everyone s mind. just one phillips colon health probio