US Politics Did you like or follow Russian BS on Facebook?

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  1. HalloweenRun

    HalloweenRun Founding Member

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    The tool is now active. Unfortunately it doesn’t tell if you saw a page.

    Fortunately I came up Scot-free.

    You can find the tool in Facebook’s Help Center, and it will show you a list of the various pages that you follow that are linked to the Kremlin-backed group, as well as when you liked and followed it. You can also log in with your Instagram account. However, the tool won’t tell you if you shared or even saw content from the pages.
     
  2. uscvball

    uscvball Founding Member

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    Oh hell no. I don't do Facebook, Instagram, snap chat, twitter, or any other widely used platform. The gubment knows too much already and it's creepy the level of info that gets gleaned from simple searches.
     
  3. LSUpride123

    LSUpride123 PureBlood

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    What’s the difference between the left/right propoganda and Russia?
     
  4. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    I have a Facebook account. It's not in my real name and I rarely log on to it. You would be amazed, or probably you wouldn't, at the information I have found about people I know. All I can say is WTF were they thinking when they posted that shit.
     
  5. HalloweenRun

    HalloweenRun Founding Member

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    I treat FB as “social media.” I post social shit.

    Pictures of my Corgis, pictures of pork chops, and pictures of birds. Pictures of losers in Walmart, that kind of stuff. Spending many years in the navy, I have friends all over so I like it to keep in touch. FB is very good for this.

    Do I get my news there? Hell no! Do I get anything of substance from FB? Hell no, again.

    FB is as far as I go. No Twitter, Instagram, or Snapchat or any of that other stuff (that my daughters waste their time on.
     
  6. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Twitter is good for breaking sports information. Several times I have been out of state in places where an LSU baseball game wasn't televised and there was no radio access. By following @lsubaseball I was able to keep up with the game pretty much inning by inning.
     
  7. tirk

    tirk im the lyrical jessie james

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    Lsu sports app broadcasts them all.
     
  8. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    I quit facebooking a while back but I can guarantee Russian troll shit didn’t end up in the bubble my social media page created for me.
     
  9. Bengal B

    Bengal B Founding Member

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    Not even when you were searching for a Russian mail order bride? :D
     
  10. LaSalleAve

    LaSalleAve when in doubt, mumble

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    Don’t need Facebook for that. And I have a wife, I’m not suicidal. 2 wives Jesus that would be hell. That’s why I don’t get those Mormon polygamists, they are fucking crazy.
     
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