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The sunday times ran a piece called obama's masterminds catch in. they basically admitted they stole the social graph which is the connections between the users from facebook, blowing all of the terms of use of facebook. and facebook let them. the wrote from the article was you can do this, as long as you stop doing it on november 7th. so there was no backlash then. but now there's a huge -- people are calling it the tech-lash, big tech is blamed for everything, it's inequality problems, diversity problems and now swinging elections. we're in a lot different environment for these companies as ...

News. i don't think your friends are going to start being howie, people will share sources from, you know, world class news organizations and they'll aggregate it there on facebook. so it's going to be more like a news reader than anything else and so they're not getting -- i know journalists all go, you know, crazy thinking facebook's going to take over their business, but it's more they want to suck in all the information that journalists write and make more money from it than news organizations, so they will aggregate it and shoot it all over the place all over the site depending on your so...

. >> and this morning the times is out with a very lengthy examination of romney's mormonism. president obama, meanwhile, has been getting a very different reception. >> which one of us here at "the view" was on "dancing with the stars?" >> that would be sherri. >> are the media giving romney far more scrutiny in this campaign? facebook goes public with a bang. >> tonight the facebook frenzy. >> tonight on world news, facebook fever. one of the biggest stock sales ever creating a thousand new millionaires. >> he was little more than a tongue-tied teenager. usa today hires an on-line ...

Came and went, that facebook has integrated itself as the backbone as so many other parts of the web. it's a deliberate strategy and one that's worked for them. if you go to jen's site, "the huffington post," you've got a bunch of facebook opportunities to see what your friends, not on the huff po, but on facebook, what are they reading and recommending? same on "the new york times." so when we consider the social graph of saying, yeah, i can see on the page, people spend more time per day than on any other website. but that's not the whole story. the whole story is all the personal data they'...

Which means it's not just about getting a name or going on tv or any of the things we think about as politicking, it's actually just having a very wealthy social graph. >> "the washington post" reported today between 1984 and 2009, the median net worth for a member of congress more than doubled. those numbers did not include home equity. for the average american family in that same period, their net worth actually declined. we have a growing difference between the kinds of people who we're electing and the people who are doing the electing. your thought on the implications, chris? >> i think...