ABC News and Facebook partners to provide political news

ABC News and Facebook have announced that they are collaborating to launch a new initiative which would provide latest news from the 2008 presidential election.

The service would also provide discussion forums for members of the service to participate in.

David Westin, president of ABC News spoke on this initiative: “We thought it would be a great opportunity for us to make available to the people already having the ongoing discussion and debate on Facebook the full range of ABC News political reporting.”

Facebook members would be able to subscribe to the profiles of ABC News reporters. And they would also be able to exchange their opinions in Debate Groups.

Dan Rose, Facebook’s vice president of business development added: “The goal is to extend the debate from being a one-hour session that happens on television to a dialogue that can take place before, after and now during the debate between voters. We’re all about providing technology platforms to enable and facilitate information flow and dialogue.”

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