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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.
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.
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.)
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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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
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.