Facebook continued to avoid a bad rep this week, as Italian police apparently used the world's leading social networking platform to bust a mobster.
CNN's story offers a nifty snapshot of mainstream news engaging with Web 2.0. First, note that this Web story is video only, lacking a transcript or audio-only version. Second, CNN's video includes a lot of staring at a YouTube video, itself Webbed up by an Italian news station.
At the end, one of the reporters (an anchor?) offers a gratuitous swipe at the wrong social media platform:
He won't be sending many tweets now... not with somebody looking at 'im.
Facebook comes out of this story smelling like a fine G-man. There isn't an odor of surveillance here, at least not surveillance we're not supposed to like. Instead, Facebook is a protector, a good guy enabler and tricker of bad guys. 2010 looks like the year Facebook escapes the fearsome Web.
(thanks to Todd Bryant)
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