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State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’

By Michal Conger
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State Department bureau spent $630,000 on Facebook ‘likes’

State Department officials spent $630,000 to get more Facebook “likes,” prompting employees to complain to a government watchdog that the bureau was “buying fans” in social media, the agency’s inspector general says.

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