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No, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not more popular among rural white Americans than President Barack Obama. Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency realizes that now. Two days after it ran a report on its website saying as much, they apologized to their readers in an online posting. Fars admitted it had been duped by an article on the Onion, a satirical news website. However, while admitting their error, the official apology also was quick to say that no less than the New York Times, the Beijing Evening News and U.S. Rep. John Fleming, R-La., had also at some point been duped by the Onion. See? It can happen to anyone. “Active and well-known media occasionally make mistakes, and no media is an exception to this rule,” the apology reads. The apology even takes this notion a step further, pointing to several factual errors or 안전 사이트 추천 cursing blunders made by the likes of the BBC. The Iranian religious autocracy takes the flow of information in the country very seriously, to the point where it has even jailed the Iranian president’s press adviser, blocked access to YouTube, and locked up numerous human rights journalists. There has been no word yet over whether they Onion spoof landed anyone behind bars in...

Moscow Facebook head Mark Zuckerberg was in Moscow on Monday, where top officials were pressing him to expand the company’s operations in Russia. Russia’s communications minister tweeted that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev urged the social media giant’s founder to abandon plans to lure away Russian programmers and instead open a research center in Moscow. A Facebook spokeswoman, la casino who refused to be named because she wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter with the media, said the company has no immediate expansion plans for Russia. Zuckerberg, who ditched his trademark hoodie and jeans for a suit and tie for his meeting with Medvedev, was visiting Russia on a world tour of programming contests to identify new talent. The two men looked pleased with the meeting, posing for photographers. Zuckerberg posted one of the photos on his Facebook page with the caption: “Good conversation with Prime Minister Medvedev.” Russian Web companies often command larger shares of the domestic market than their U.S. counterparts. Facebook has roughly 9 million users in Russia, while domestic clone VK has around 34 million. Medvedev has cultivated a tech-friendly image since launching his modernization program while president of Russia from 2008 until this May, when Vladimir Putin returned for his third term as...