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President Obama, don’t listen to anything the guy from Zynga has to say!

President Obama, don’t listen to anything the guy from Zynga has to say!
FILE – In this Nov. 14, 2013 file photo, President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about his signature health care law, in the Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. It survived the Supreme Court, a presidential election and numerous repeal votes in Congress, but now President Barack Obama’s health care law risks coming unglued because of his own mistakes explaining it and his administration’s bungled implementation. Obama now needs breakthroughs on three separate fronts: the cancellations mess, technology troubles, and a crisis in confidence among his own supporters. It’s daunting, but working in his favor is…

The President is holding a powwow with fifteen leading figures in the tech industry, and somehow the head of Zynga got on the list. This sounds terrible because it is. The purpose for the roundtable is for the White House to get opinions on how to correct HealthCare.gov and deal with the NSA. So, it’s smart to ask the advice of people like Tim Cook of Apple and Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook.

But the CPO of a company that carved out the manipulative social game market and hooked millions of listless clickers on raising virtual ears of corn? Unless Obama is planning to implement Farmville’s friend referral system for government-sponsored healthcare, or lure international terrorists with a banally cute contraband-trading clickathon, this can do no good.

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Jason Johnson