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How To Check If You Interacted With Russian Propaganda On Facebook During the 2016 Election (recode.net)
Facebook has rolled out a new tool to help some users figure out if they interacted with Russian propaganda during the 2016 U.S. presidential election. "The social giant's tool -- available here, through its Help Center -- specifically allows users to see if they followed or 'Liked' any pages and accounts set up by Kremlin-backed trolls on either Facebook or Instagram," reports Recode. From the report: Over the course of the 2016 election, Facebook estimates that roughly 140 million users may have seen Russian propaganda in their News Feeds or on Instagram. Much of that content sought to sow social and political unrest around divisive issues like race, religion and LGBT rights. But only a small slice of those 140 million affected users can actually take advantage of Facebook's new tool, which it first previewed in November. That's because the portal only aids those who directly followed one of the accounts or pages set up by Russian sources on Instagram and Facebook. It does not help users who may have simply seen Kremlin-sponsored content because their friends "Liked" it and it subsequently appeared in their own News Feeds. Facebook's new service also doesn't allow users to check if they saw some of the roughly 3,000 election-timed ads purchased by Russia's notorious trolls, known as the Internet Research Agency. About 10 million users saw those ads around the election, the company previously has said.
Would be lovely to see a list of posts shared/liked by friends to your timeline rather than just things you've clicked on.
So I'm safe. Unlike the rest of you dweebs.
Joe McCarthy was right!!!!!!
"The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old......They literally know nothing." - Ben Rhodes
While they are at it, can they show me NSA, CIA, FBI, Plus every other propaganda agency of every other government. Why just single out the Russians.
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Answer this simple quiz to know if you've encountered Russian Propoganda:
1) Have you ever been on the internet?
If you answered "yes", then congratulations!? You've encountered Russian Propaganda. And American Propaganda. And probably Botswana Propaganda. Maybe some Klingon stuff, too.
I guess if you want to know if you interacted instead of just encountered you'll have to use that tool, and another for Twitter, and another for Tumblr, and another for LiveJournal[1], etc. I'm not trying to dismiss Russian interference (it's not good, and no, neither is American interference in foreign elections), but propaganda without direct interactions (such as, say, talking to certain members of a certain transition team for a certain President-Elect) has been blown out of proportion for their effect. With or without that interference, >40% of American voters didn't vote (or were blocked from voting), and about ~50% of those who did are idiots[2].
[1] Yes I know LiveJournal is owned by a Russian company.
[2] I leave it to the reader apply this assessment to whichever tribe they don't belong to.
Since its a tool rolled out by facebook yea i wouldn't trust it completely. Wouldn't shock me if it was bit leaning in democrat's favor in things.
I'm not looking to start a flame war, but how does showing an id before one is allowed to vote racist?
Because I don't argue with random strangers on Facebook, nor do I allow anyone but my connected friends comment or even see my posts. If you let this shit be public then you're an idiot and deserve to be trolled.
Its not the fact that ID was required to be shown. It was the fact that certain ID Types were Permitted. Texas was the most Severe and Egregious example. They permitted you to use Driver's Licenses, and Gun Permits, but not State ID cards (which are the same thing as a Driver's Licence, but say they are for ID only, typically people with disabilities have them, and you can even buy Alcohol with them, or Student ID cards issued from Universities.)
Having a candidate who could give speeches in more states that people actually wanted to listen to helps win elections.
Listening to people all over the USA rather than lecturing them might also help win elections given the need to win in different states all over the USA.
Been able to talk to people not down to them might be something a candidate could try too.
Thats all internal party skills. For one party to understand and another party to try next election.
Find a person more people all around the USA actually like.
Staying near the elite coast and giving short statements to the media won't win an election.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
There's no tool at the linked page, or at least not displayed to me. Just a video and some bullet points saying that FB takes security seriously, will be removing fake accounts, and provided 3k ads to Congress. I'm in Canada and logged in to Facebook from a Canadian IP address, is this tool only being displayed to people who visit from an IP address geo-located to the USA?
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Student IDs,I could see not taking. Too easy to fake. Thanks for the answer.
How to tell if you've interacted with, and likely been indoctrinated by, Russian propaganda: If you're still reading this then it means you care whether you have, so you haven't. If you don't care whether you did, then you did.
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
> 1. Mass White Supremacist Blowback from 8 years of having a black President.
I still don't think that demographic matters. Obama got re-elected, so they only get mobilized after 8 years? Absurd.
Often wrong but never in doubt.
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Texas has been offering FREE voter ID cards since 2013. You're flat out wrong here. I get the whole student ID thing, because it does not necessarily prove you are a resident of Texas; for example, my wife is a student of SNHU and she has a student ID card - but we live, full time, in California and have never been to New Hampshire.
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
us IP address and all I saw was fluff, no tool.
"Knowing everything doesn't help..."
Never went to Facebook. Never read the articles. Never pretended they were news.
I'm good.
It is programmed and improved by anyone, and it is often given away for free. Sounds like socialism to me.
... when will you get it?
Hillary Clinton was unlikable, had nothing positive going for her, was a terrible campaigner, and oh yeah, both horrifically and comically mishandled classified information. And that's just for starters.
All that was real, no Russian anything needed. You lost because you sucked.
But please, keep deluding yourselves. It can only make your next loss more likely.
Wow...filter out all of the Anonymous Coward "propaganda" here and the comments section starts to look like an actual discussion of sorts.
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Unless we move back.
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look in the mirror, are you a retard that uses sites like facebook for your news? if so you probably should have your right to vote removed for the safety of others.
From their website: "Priorities USA is a voter-centric progressive advocacy organization and service center for the grassroots progressive movement."
Any time you see an organization self-describe as "grassroots", you know they are funded by oligarchs and advocate policies that are harmful to working people.
Facebook always lies.
Time for antitrust action against FB?
It's truly weird how over a year after President Trump won the election, and nearly a year since he assumed power, the left is still oblivious as to why they lost the election.
It's not weird at all.
They need to justify ever more mechanisms for throttling molding the information that people see. Even though the mainstream media gave her a lopsided boost, even though the DNC sacrificed their down-ballot elections to get her elected *and* cheated in the run up to the election, even though Facebook and Twitter and Google were banning people, deleting accounts, and reading peoples' documents, despite an army of "correct the record" trolls... despite all that, she still lost.
They're putting in place the very mechanisms that will give them more control over the future narrative.
Their propaganda machine wasn't powerful enough, they're fixing it so that it'll be more powerful next time.
Let me just log into uber creeper website that TOTALLY deserves our trust as an authority on the "truth".
that successfully interfered in our elections and achieved all of their ends? Maybe you agree with the Russians that Trump should be president. But it still would have been nice for America to be able to decide it's president on our own.
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Got it, now where do I go to see if I've interacted with Israeli propaganda?
How do I report my local politician for having failed to sufficiently express their undying admiration of Israel?
If you actually think Russian influence caused Hillary to lose rather than Hillary herself.
Wow, that sketchy Julian Assange. How underhanded of him to release undoctored, truthful third party content!
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Seems it's past time for that. At least Russian trolls have to work in the open. I'm much more worried about the amount of unseen influence FB, Google and Twitter can exert on public opinion simply by manipulating ranking in search results and timelines.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
After those 8 years, it seems people were not so much pissed at Obama but rather somewhat desillusioned. The crap economy didn't help (even if that wasn't exactly the president's fault). So people were ready for change, especially in getting some new blood and new politics into the White House. The Democrats proffered a candidate who for many people was the very embodiment of old, inbred and elitist politics. The Republicans had their bull in a china shop. In a country looking for a new broom, this was a choice between the devil you know and the devil you don't know.
If construction was anything like programming, an incorrectly fitted lock would bring down the entire building...
(1) The link does not link to the described tool. None of the comments I looked at said this, which indicates that NONE of the comments were from people who had made that much effort to know what they were commenting about.
(2) No mention of "Dark Money" or other explanations of how the elections of America have been rigged and gamed. That was a broader search beyond checking all the so-called insightful comments.
(3) No funny comments.
(4) Lots of trollage including bogus moderation. Doesn't really matter who's paying for it.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
I didn't interact with facebook at all during the election. I have it listed as an untrusted domain.
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I'm not on facebook! I'm smarter than that.
All we have is YEARS of propaganda-- Bush had 8 years and investigated the whole time and for 6 years having more GOP controlled government ever. Found NOTHING. They only proposed solutions to problems they NEVER proved existed.
I've heard GOP strategist admit higher voter turn out kills them; they pray for rain and snow on election day. THE GOP FIGHTS EVERY ATTEMPT TO PROMOTE DEMOCRACY. Multiple days to vote? oppose it. Holiday to vote? oppose it. Easy process to vote? oppose it. They only sometimes allow something in specific situations where it is publicly known to help them (meaning it's so strong you can easily find why.)
Why don't we FIX social security numbers and most the Identity Theft problems in the USA (when other nations have already?) It's the GOP. seriously. A working Identifier system and Verification system would inevitably be used for voting. That is how much the GOP wants voting broken.
DRIVERS LICENSE / State ID. Yes, there are some illegals with them. There are SIMPLE solutions to that problem; but we are not even allowed to hear those without being drowned out with GOP propaganda. I've seen it 1st hand being involved in such issues lobbying and volunteering.
VOTER IDs are a SCAM... a HACK of the system. SIMPLE IS HARD TO HACK-- voter IDs are complex nightmares on purpose. No, they can't be done simple... the devil is in the details and even if you have perfect details; some corruption WILL happen to put in loopholes later! Which again is why it must be DEAD SIMPLE. Voter IDs are never simple!
Criminals are citizens and their alienable right to vote exists even if we stupidly infringe upon that right. it is NOT a privilege! When you take away voting rights of minorities (criminals) your actions prove you treat it as a privilege, not a right. Even more stupid is how many are in jail and when their "debt" is payed they still can't vote. You judge a society by how it treats the lowly. Criminals are a common excuse for many undemocratic laws. Illegals are a big one too. SIMPLE IS HARD TO HACK. proving citizenship is harder; I'm for it... but voting comes 1st, residency 2nd, citizenship 3rd. if you really believe in democracy, you would have your priorities straight.
Residency restrictions (double voting) is a bigger issue but it largely curbs illegals at the same time since they are similar problems.... devil is in the details. Yes, double voting is rare... but so are illegals. REMEMBER, it's been heavily investigated for decades by the same people claiming it is a problem. Now your state may be GOP fucked up so bad they created a problem on purpose, but some of us have fairly decent elections.
You want to fix things? Start with real IDENTITY THEFT solutions. It takes approx 2 years from breach to used identity (according to FBI) so plan now because recent breaches will start their impact then. If a foreign power is organized, they could bring down the nation with automated identity attacks. A crisis (the rate of theft now should be considered a crisis already) will need a solution and that is the time for a REAL solution to happen. Get prepared. LEARN.
Identifiers like Social Security should be PUBLIC knowledge and actually do not need to change (an upgrade to an easy to remember alphanumeric code with a larger number space but shorter length would be nice... and harder to filter out with regex.) They should be assigned to everybody; even dead people. Makes history easier, genealogy, etc. Your name and birthday mostly do this already; a serial number is same but better... but try telling the 666 freaks that. (maybe using base 36 instead of a number would help? at least it's shorter.) No encryption. keep it simple. Hey, Babylonians used base 60, so it's still simple enough. Don't think your face scan from a low res photo won't ID you well enough to anybody in the near future. Having a public # code doesn't mean you have to advertise it like your face.
Identity verification is a huge area which needs work. it MUST be
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We are inundated with political ads all the time. We don't always know who paid for them directly or indirectly or why.
When Obama was running they accepted untraceable contributions and no doubt used them to run ads.
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Stop this stupidity already
Anyone using FB as a primary news outlet is obviously too dumb to vote. Sadly, there seem to be a lot of them..
Organization? You must be joking..
"Free" as in Linux, and "Free" as in socialism are two totally different versions of "free."
If you think socialism is "free", try doing it with a tax rate of 0%.
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It's more effective than domestic propaganda, because it elected someone the mainstream media didn't want.
I'm not sure I buy into that argument -- even assuming the Roooosians wanted Donald Trump, and made a serious attempt to propagandize their way to the outcome they wanted.
If you're going to adopt that kind of reasoning, why not assume they propagandized for the primaries, too? That way, no matter who won -- Kang or Kodos -- they'd have one they liked.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.
The conspiracy has become accepted as fact. When I see this sort of thing I giggle some. The idea that we were affected and that we are worried about it enough to actually look up whether it affected us is so hilarious. That someone would or could think of making tool is sort of frightening and comedic at the same time.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Mainstream media didn't want. We the people on the other hand are far more difficult to assess. He's there obviously because the people wanted him. I'm sure promises of draining the swamp is a big factor.
But what the mainstream media wants is irrelevant.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.
Golly! It looks like my sarcasm indicator -- Golly! -- didn't work this time.
There's no time like the present. Well, the past used to be.