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Pro-Trump propaganda manipulation live at Facebook

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2 pointsHappyDreamer5 comments

Can you see how they do it? How they do the manipulation? My acquaintances, who got tricked into accepting the friend request, didn't see the propaganda, not even after I mentioned to them that it's pro-Trump propaganda. One of them did realize, a little bit later.

It's really insidious and manipulating in a clever way.

About the content -- apparently it's not true, see e.g. https://nordic.businessinsider.com/trump-falsely-claims-demo...

I don't like this kind of manipulation. (Not pro-Trump, not pro-anyone-else either.) Any tips about what to do about it? Reporting the profile is one thing, however, there're likely 10 000 other similar profiles that I never found out about.

Cannot Facebook automatically find these things and ban the ip addresses or something?

Is hackernews /r/politics now?

If you want to see “insidious and manipulating in a clever way”, just pick up a copy of Time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/06/2...

I'd say this is on topic for HN, for people who haven't seen that kind of manipulation previously. From the guidelines: "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity" -- yes this post does this, for me.

And maybe not for you and others who have seen this kind of manipulation before already.

Are you sure it is not a spam account from a clickfarm? Perhaps they only want to sell soap or whoever pay them to send spam and links. Make some friends and likes to build some credibility. Facebook is combating them and all the spam, but the spam filter is not perfect. [Disclaimer: I don't work t Facebook, so I'm only guessing here.]

Thanks for that interesting thought. Yes I'm fairly positive this is about politics:

This "NGO" posted the pro-Trump "news" three days ago, and thereafter they started sending huge amounts of friend requests, including to me and to some people I know. The last three days the "NGO" has added 150+ friends. The 5 months before that, they added only about 4 friends per month.

So it's the Trump "news" they want everyone to see. (And there's an election later this year, so I suppose they do these things more often now this year)

I think they are talented, the people doing this propaganda.

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