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Mark Zuckerberg’s Cynical, Necessary Washington Strategy

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FWD.us is playing a familiar game to get immigration reform passed.

For championing a cause most techies and liberals agree with—reforming America's immigration system—Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg sure has taken a lot of flak. In March, he launched FWD.us , a political action committee promoting "policies to keep the United States and its citizens competitive in a global economy." Leading lights of Silicon Valley signed on, from Google's Eric Schmidt to Yahoo!'s Marissa Mayer, putting undisclosed sums of money behind the passage of the Gang of Eight's immigration reform bill (the group had raised $25 million by early April ). These are people whose technologic

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