He passed along stories he'd heard about Facebook connections helping bring Western cultural influence to students of fundamentalist Islam in Lebanon and uniting people in Colombia against FARC, a marxist guerilla group in the country classified by some nations as a terrorist group. He also talked about a system that will reward users for posting relevant items other people find useful and limit those who send unpopular items. And he addressed the failures of Beacon, a feature that published online shopping information and endorsements to your friends when you purchased, say, movie tickets with a partner site.
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