Those most in need of introspection will never take the time to investigate. If they had that much self awareness, they would have been more critical of the stories the first go round.

Now if we could run it on other people's feed and push the results back at them, that might be useful.

This might even be of less use than I originally thought.

The way it is written, it seems to indicate that it would help you see the posts you interacted with. I read that as like or share. IMO, those likely to share or like were already predisposed to believe what they wanted to believe anyway.

I think far more damage was done by passive interaction. The constant scrolling through of those negative messages has an impact on people even if they don't like or share. These are the people that can get turned off on a subject just by being constantly exposed to it.

That is also why I think the FOX chyron is the most subversive part of their programming. People who are actively tuning it are self selecting for that message. I wonder more about all those people sitting in waiting rooms or sandwich shops constantly seeing those messages scrolling across the bottom of the screen. I think that might actually have a bigger impact on turning opinions of people who would not otherwise believe that crap.

let people know that they've been hoodwinked by Russian propaganda when they thought they were getting information from real Americans. If 25% of those people re-consider a point of view they now realize was influenced by foreign propaganda, the impact will be huge.

Except I suspect the number to be way, way below 25%.

I do agree with you that it is a good step towards transparency even if no one actually uses it.

due to this change in FB.

They are gearing up for the 2018 election.

Nor will many Trump voters. There is shame in learning you were conned, and they're averse to that emotion. Can't take a risk.

I'll look and I'll see that, if anything, I blocked some of it.

We have read and interacted with.

when you can't distinguish the facts from the fiction, and I admit that can be difficult these days, it's time to turn off twitter and facebook and disregard them as sources of factual information. They are being still used to disseminate falsehoods and manipulate public opinion, only it's not just Monsanto and PepsiCo anymore...it's the Kochs and the Mercers and the Russians all playing Monkeywrench Gang.