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Should Facebook, Twitter and Google be considered American soft power assets?

Wikipedia entry on soft power: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_power


Informative report on soft power: http://www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publications/20/the-new-persuaders
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tynamite
tynamite's avatar If you are talking about whether America uses Facebook, Twitter and Google as bargaining tools to get them what they want from other countries, the idea of that is unrealistic.

They can use them to get information about people, but knowing that information doesn't mean they'll get what they want. It doesn't work like that.
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