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Obama holds virtual meeting on Google
Jan 31, 2012, 0:53 GMT
San Francisco - US President Barack Obama was interviewed Monday by members of the public in a virtual town hall meeting in the conducted in the White House using Google's social video platform called Hangout.
Those asking live questions of the president included a woman at an Occupy Wall Street camp and a wife helping her unemployed engineer husband find work. Other participants quizzed Obama about his small-business policies and how to explain the country's economic situation to children.
In total, more than 133,000 questions were submitted to the forum, which was billed by Google as the first-ever virtual interview, and which followed previous appearances by Obama on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
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