There is a way to determine if you followed / liked Russian troll FB and Instagram pages/posts

[ehrnst]

Many will not want to know, and I understand why, but knowing how and if one got fooled is a vital step in preventing it from happening again.

Far from shouting the availability of this tool from the rooftops, Facebook waited until the Friday before Christmas, a traditional dumping-ground for items companies would rather go unnoticed, and then stuck the tool deep in the help pages. Nice try, Facebook!

To its credit, though, the tool is remarkably simple to use. Just go to this page and it should display any of the accounts created by Russia’s Internet Research Agency that you might have liked or followed. If you log into your Instagram account, it’ll show that info too.

If you followed some of the shady accounts, it’ll look like this:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/12/22/check-now-to-see-if-you-liked-any-russian-troll-accounts-on-facebook/

[bearsfootball516]

1. I checked, it said I don't follow any.

Big shocker, I have a brain.

[Squinch]

2. This is great!

Even if you are right about many not wanting to know, it's a great resource.

[poboy2]

3. r'd

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4. Are they collecting this data? Is it for sale? n/t

[ehrnst]

5. You mean Facebook?

Yes, they collect data.

And if this data was worth selling, or if they were allowed to sell it, wouldn't they have made it MUCH more high profile?

And really, why would Facebook want to make data about how often they failed to adequately screen for trolls?

This fall saw ever-rising estimates of the number of people reached by Russian-backed troll accounts — just shy of 150 million at last count . Now the social network has at last released the tool it promised last month allowing users to see if they liked or followed one of the many pages or pieces of content put online during the sketchy attempt at mass manipulation.

Far from shouting the availability of this tool from the rooftops, Facebook waited until the Friday before Christmas, a traditional dumping-ground for items companies would rather go unnoticed, and then stuck the tool deep in the help pages. Nice try, Facebook!

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10. Yes I mean Facebook.

"...wouldn't they have made it MUCH more high profile?"
No. They have tons of data just sitting around.
Not widely advertising the availability of the tool would select for a subset of users.


"...why would Facebook want to make data about how often they failed to adequately screen for trolls?"
Just off the top I could imagine this would be useful in building a picture on how susceptible one is to this sort of thing.


Facebook collects ALL keystrokes period exclamation point.

[ehrnst]

11. So what was your question, then? (nt)

[Hortensis]

6. Apparently FB offered a "personality test" a couple

years back that around 270K people took. If their privacy settings didn't block it, they also gave access to FB data on their friends. These people did give permission, not realizing who'd be using the data and for what.

That's in addition to the data collected from over 50M FB users. Supposedly 30M of those contained enough data to generate "psychographic profiles."

[Sedona]

7. not me

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[ehrnst]

9. That was the result I got, too.

[dixiegrrrrl]

8. I may have unhappy family/friends, but Facebook is off limits to me.

All you have to do is LOOK at it and know how much it controls every thing you see.
Worse yet, it has managed to have "...sign in with your Facebook account" all over the web, as has Google.