Political candidate pages automatically got liked by my Facebook account

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The presidential election in my country is coming up this May. To my surprise, my profile has automatically liked and followed around 20 pages of a presidential candidate without my consent. I had to unlike and unfollow one by one.

Has this happened to any of you before?

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I had a twitter account once upon a time and never really used it. After a couple of years I logged in to see if it was still active and, low and behold, I was following a bunch of random celebrities and bands.

Hasn't this kind of thing been going on from the outset?

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