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Facebook data mining for political views
Politico ^
| 10/30/2014
| Hadas Gold
Posted on 10/31/2014 11:02:58 AM PDT by leapfrog0202
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Don't post a lot so I hope what I posted is acceptable per the rules. I looked and didn't see Politico on the various lists of sites with special rules.
To: leapfrog0202
This will just allow the MSM to generate a bunch of stories claiming that the nation is distraught over the GOP win, based on the work of a handful of Facebook trolls.
To: leapfrog0202
That is because there is nothing special about Politico, not an especially interesting website.
This story tells me that ABC and other news orgs are still failing and flailing, they are not reliable and respectable news organizations.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:06:30 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
To: leapfrog0202
—hummmm- if they check mine (which I suspect only three of my “friends” read , it’ll sure show an anti-Demo lean-—I plaster it with everything anti-Obama I find-—
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:08:10 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: rellimpank
I plaster it with everything anti-Obama I find
So do I!
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:09:18 AM PDT
by
angcat
To: leapfrog0202
Who needs Facebook when you have Free Republic!!
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:09:30 AM PDT
by
mass55th
(Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
To: leapfrog0202
Well, FB knows mine, believe me.
To: leapfrog0202
Are they using my real fake name to collect data is the question.
With so many fake identities on Facebook how reliable can their data mining be. Facebook is full of themselves.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:10:58 AM PDT
by
gunsequalfreedom
(Conservative is not a label of convenience. It is a guide to your actions.)
To: rellimpank
Hehehehehehe, me too!
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:11:27 AM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: leapfrog0202
They can mine away on my fake facebook account all they want. I use it only as a convenient access method for hundreds of thousands of websites that accept facebook login credentials, or even better, simply accept the facebook logged-on cookie and consider me already logged onto their site.
(BTW, would here anyone be surprised to know that my mined fake facebook account would show that I’m a shell backed conservative?)
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:13:05 AM PDT
by
catnipman
(Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
To: b4its2late; angcat
—and , to avoid being totally negative, I post nearly every pro-firearms piece I see, also-—
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:13:45 AM PDT
by
rellimpank
(--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
To: leapfrog0202
Raise your hand if you are surprised by this.
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That’s it. Raise them high.
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...
Okay...
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Now...
Curl your hand in to a fist and punch yourself in the face for being so naive/stupid.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:15:47 AM PDT
by
WayneS
(Don't blame me, I voted for Kodos.)
To: leapfrog0202
Facebook keeps a history of not only what pages you go to, but every like you click and correlates them to associate people into categories...essentially doing psychological profiles. It’s not perfect, but there’s a lot of data mining available to them.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:22:54 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: WayneS
I cancelled my Facebook on November 7, 2012.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:23:15 AM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(Ebola: Satan's End Game for Humanity.)
To: mass55th
Who needs Facebook when you have Free Republic!!
FR is on Facebook too....
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:23:21 AM PDT
by
leapfrog0202
("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
To: leapfrog0202
"48 percent of Americans get their political news from Facebook"God help us.
To: leapfrog0202
Another reason to ditch facebook
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:26:31 AM PDT
by
Ouderkirk
(To the left, everything must evidence that this or that strand of leftist theory is true)
To: gunsequalfreedom
It’s whatever ID you are logged in under.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:27:08 AM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: leapfrog0202
Facebook exists for the purpose of data-mining as much as it can about its users, no matter what subject.
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posted on
10/31/2014 11:27:29 AM PDT
by
gdani
(Ebola has exposed the U.S. as fearful, easy-to-manipulate weaklings)
To: leapfrog0202
It's all part of the left's Big Data for politics push. They're vacuuming up data on everyone from every possible source.
The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. Thats going to be very, very powerful.
And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that its never been done before.
Maxine Waters
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