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Hugo Chavez Takes Up Fight On Facebook

Sep. 6, 2009
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez is fighting a global Facebook campaign against him with an anti-American Facebook campaign of his own. Host Liane Hansen talks to Foreign Policy blogger Evgeny Morozov about the dueling social media campaigns.
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President Obama awards the Presidential Medal of Freedom in Washington
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President Barack Obama awards the the Presidential Medal of Freedom to singer/songwriter Bob Dylan during a ceremony in the East Room at the White House in Washington on May 29, 2012. The Medal of Freedom is our NationÕs highest civilian honor, presented to individuals who have made especially meritorious contributions to the security or national interests of the United States, to world peace, or to cultural or other significant public or private endeavors. UPI/Kevin Dietsch