Relentless pro-Tory, fake news bullshit in my Facebook feed
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Buddy Bradley
Pantheistic solipsist
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hiraethified
Laudable aim but I really don't want to give Facebook any money.
Steel Icarus
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Politics in twenty nineteen. What a time to be alive
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Do you mean the capitalist worker stuff? Honestly don’t sweat it. The comments on every one of those posts are funny as fuck and proof that analytics probably aren’t really deciding elections.
Steel Icarus
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I don't HAVE a Facebook feed.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
In fact never in the history of politics have I seen such a blatantly obvious, and totally desperate attempt to win votes fall flat on it’s drunken face like that. What the fuck are they thinking? They must really believe the Russians under the bed stuff. You pathetic, irrelevant cunts.
FridgeMagnet
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Steel Icarus
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That's the same thing
Treacle Toes
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Just saying today that I see next to nothing of this. I mod a few groups around issues like universal credit and bedroom tax too. We get chancers, trolls etc but next to nothing of Tory based fake news or adverts.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Honestly you are missing out, it’s memetastic
TORIES BE CONSTANTLY SHOWING UP IN MY FEED LIKE
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I never see any either. what am i doing right/wrong?
8ball
Decolonise colons!
Same here. My FB feed is a bit left-liberal bubble with occasional outbursts of proper leftiness.
UnderOpenSky
baseline neural therapy
I'm actually getting fed up of it. I mean everyone I know hates the tories. I get it and I'm kinda bored by the sheer amount of it.
Can I have some pictures of kittens instead?
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hiraethified
Maybe it's because Brixton Buzz is a tiny bit more high profile or seen as some sort of vaguely influential site, so we get this targeted excrement in the FB feed thanks to their shit-shunting algorithms
Either way, consider yourself lucky if you're not seeing it.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I’m not even profile let alone high profile, what did I do? I think someone broke it down though it has more to do with age and earnings or shit like that
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hiraethified
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Tired and unemotional
Ah, yes, my old MP, and close to the motherlode of Tory cuntitude.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Avoid Facebook as much as possible.
Seriously, this should be a big story.
Glad to see other people getting pissed off about this. When I looked it up a couple of weeks ago all I could find was an article on another angry voice -
AAV: Who are the people behind all these annoying fake-grassroots Tory spam ads?
If you look at who is paying for these it's sometimes 'activists' and sometimes the weird quasi grassroots groups themselves. The funding there is less than transparent and these groups usually have at best a terrible template based site registered around the time of the election being announced (or just before).
There is something very wrong going on here and I suspect it's a coordinated thing. These guys can post whatever they want being arm's length from the conservative party so not accountable. Not on the books spending wise either.
I suspect they specifically exclude people active in those communities. You're informed enough not to be swung by the adverts and might be an irritant in the comments. I'd imagine they are targeting 'regular' people who haven't been particularly active politically on Facebook (by liking certain parties/groups even bands etc). I don't do much on Facebook so get loads of this shit.
Glad to see other people getting pissed off about this. When I looked it up a couple of weeks ago all I could find was an article on another angry voice -
AAV: Who are the people behind all these annoying fake-grassroots Tory spam ads?
If you look at who is paying for these it's sometimes 'activists' and sometimes the weird quasi grassroots groups themselves. The funding there is less than transparent and these groups usually have at best a terrible template based site registered around the time of the election being announced (or just before).
There is something very wrong going on here and I suspect it's a coordinated thing. These guys can post whatever they want being arm's length from the conservative party so not accountable. Not on the books spending wise either.
I suspect they specifically exclude people active in those communities. You're informed enough not to be swung by the adverts and might be an irritant in the comments. I'd imagine they are targeting 'regular' people who haven't been particularly active politically on Facebook (by liking certain parties/groups even bands etc). I don't do much on Facebook so get loads of this shit.
Not going on FB a all has done wonders for my MH
It's all well and good saying FB is crap and being dismissive.
But the large number of potential swing voters see an authoratitive looking group like 'city voice' quoting the Financial Times saying that Corbyn will be a disaster for the economy or qn emotive post about how Corbyn will stop people owning their own home.
It does have an affect on the voting in the election that's why significant money is being spent on this.
FB may be crap but the ramifications here go far beyond that.
But the large number of potential swing voters see an authoratitive looking group like 'city voice' quoting the Financial Times saying that Corbyn will be a disaster for the economy or qn emotive post about how Corbyn will stop people owning their own home.
It does have an affect on the voting in the election that's why significant money is being spent on this.
FB may be crap but the ramifications here go far beyond that.
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