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nolabear

(41,986 posts) Mon Oct 23, 2017, 11:44 PM Oct 2017

Has anyone noticed the Fake News robotrolls on FB today?

Please don’t bother bashing FB; I use it and I read news articles. Today, all of a sudden, there’s a massive influx of trolls all of whom use some variation of “Fake News” in their comments and of course are phony accounts with no friends. I’ve never seen anything like it. There’s a troll farm out there somewhere thatteally thinks it worthwhile to kick into high gear.

Anyone else notice this?

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Has anyone noticed the Fake News robotrolls on FB today? (Original Post) nolabear Oct 2017 OP

Have U any links? Not sure if I saw any benld74 Oct 2017 #1

NPR, Rawstory, Snopes...even Takei. Ill look for direct links later. nolabear Oct 2017 #2

Noticed them posting comments, madamesilverspurs Oct 2017 #3

Something needs to be done to filter out the fake news on facebook. It's out of control and helped.. brush Oct 2017 #4

This wasnt fake news though. The trolls were fake. nolabear Oct 2017 #5

Who thought facebook was possible? It's possible to filter out a good percentage of the crap... brush Oct 2017 #6

benld74

(9,904 posts)

1. Have U any links? Not sure if I saw any

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 11:48 PM

Oct 2017

nolabear

(41,986 posts)

2. NPR, Rawstory, Snopes...even Takei. Ill look for direct links later.

Reply to benld74 (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 11:51 PM

Oct 2017

madamesilverspurs

(15,805 posts)

3. Noticed them posting comments,

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 11:52 PM

Oct 2017

oozing praise for tRump, even on posts having nothing to do with the alleged president. Syrupy, gooey, swooning exaltations of "how lucky we are to have him". Eew. Also ick.

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brush

(53,787 posts)

4. Something needs to be done to filter out the fake news on facebook. It's out of control and helped..

Reply to nolabear (Original post)

Mon Oct 23, 2017, 11:58 PM

Oct 2017

install trump in the WH. Twitter as well.

Zuckerberg makes enough money to revamp it with editorial fact checking and control, especially in the political arena.

nolabear

(41,986 posts)

5. This wasnt fake news though. The trolls were fake.

Reply to brush (Reply #4)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 12:25 AM

Oct 2017

NPR isn’t Fake. Rawstory is careless about fanning flames but not fake, nor is Snopes.

I agree FB is full of bs but I’m not sure at this point how they’d solve it.

brush

(53,787 posts)

6. Who thought facebook was possible? It's possible to filter out a good percentage of the crap...

Reply to nolabear (Reply #5)

Tue Oct 24, 2017, 12:58 AM

Oct 2017

if they put the concerted effort in.

A commitment to do has to be there though.

Zuckerberg should do just to make up for embedding trumpites onto the platform during the election.

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