Mass Republican infiltration of Facebook? Has this happened to anyone else?

A message showed up on the Facebook page of a friend of mine. It said that he had just contributed
to the campaign of Michelle Bachmann. This was SO out of character for a Georgia Democrat that I
asked him what he could have been thinking. I should have known better. He had not contributed to
Bachmann, and had not posted the message that he had, either! If this can be done to one Facebook
account, it can be done to most if not all of them.

Here is the first message (his name and Bachmann's links are omitted here, but the text is the original):

"I just contributed $25.00 to support..........Congresswoman Michele Bachmann. Help at.................."

After I mentioned this to him, he wrote this back:

"I have NO idea where this came from. I haven't made a contribution to Michele Bachmann.... not that I know of. VERY STRANGE!"

I don't know if this means they're desperate, or just that they are trying out every illegal method they can to
see what they can get away with (more likely, I'd say). Karl Rove and the Dirty Tricks team have definitely gone
high tech. What's the matter guys? That billion dollars you are spending STILL ain't enough to buy this election?

I would have your friend call FB to see if they have a record of the account info used for that particular posting. If it doesn't line up with your friend, this is something that FB security needs to look into. If there's a pattern of similar posts from the same computer, call the FEC.

I opted out of FB. It's disgusting for the most part. It is very difficult to get your name off of there. They will send you false names of people messaging you. The secret is do NOT go there to even look for 30 days. They're still bothering me after all of this time. Awful site.

I wonder if we use it in different ways somehow. What did you do on there?

I post funny pictures of cats and my friends comment. I send messages with links or photos attached and get replies from my friends. I read my friends' posts and look at their pictures. I get updates from the Pages I have signed up with. I promote my business on its own Page. I get no spam, no Bachmann crap, no "false names". Am I doing something wrong?

For me, it's a great site.

I just use my board to get messages from friends, since the time difference makes phone contacts with North
America inconvenient for us working stiffs. This didn't appear on my board (yet!! I should look more carefully),
but rather on a friend's board. I posted a note asking what the hell had gotten into him, contributing to Bachmann,
and that's when he answered he did no such thing, and had no idea how the post appeared under his name--with a
link to Bachmann's contribution center no less.

Whether it's all in the way it's used.

I do the same things you do. Post funny stuff, pictures and videos and things. Stay away from politics. I have friends and family who are Republicans. Some are big into religion. I leave all that stuff alone and try to stay non-confrontational and non-controversial.

I've never gotten any kind of spam or weird things happen except for the usual FB glitches that happen from time to time.

Obviously, I'm much too boring for spammers to bother with.

:cry:

Must be that most of my friends are Progressives and Liberals. I'll usually see the latest outrage from DKos or MediaMatters on my FB book feed than any right wing tripe. I have a few right wing friends who we have agreed to disagree on many issues but all believe this is not the place to wage the partisan wars. The few who insist are put on ignore.

I do see ads for rushpublicans there, just as I do on DKOS and TPM...all arbitrarily selected based on my profile. Some times I'll click on the link to get a good laugh and cause the candidate to have to pay something to the website (always a progressive one) tip jar.

I doubt that the Bachmann campaign is behind it, it's probably some of her crazy supporters, but who knows?

It should definitely by reported to FB.

If you have a link to an address to report stuff like this to Facebook, I'd appreciate it. I scoured their site and
found links to all sorts of FAQs but no "leave us a message" site to report this.

Instead I did report it to the FEC and send a copy to the New York Times. They like stuff like this--at least they
still do until Murdoch finds a way to buy them, too.

only a few of my friends are republican...kinda sucks because one is my first girl friend and others i`ve known all my life...oh well one is perfect!

And he's no Republican. That's why it looked so weird.

Here's an item from Talking Points Memo that is characteristic of conservative attitudes toward women:


Is your girlfriend all right with being demeaned by members of her chosen party in this way?

You probably signed up for some kind of facebook game like 'kick the kitten' or maybe 'glob wars' or 'you-farm' or whatever they call it. One of these tests/games/sign up things had a second front. They collect your facebook information with the one and put out the ad from there into another. It wouldn't be hard and I think it is against policy and maybe a little illegal. If you can figure out who did it you could probably file a law suit for misrepresentation or possibly libel.

... Facebook or Twitter, so I have no idea how easy they are to hack, (This kind of crap, IS the reason I don't do them) but I wouldn't put any sort of lying, cheating, illegal, immoral, unfair, or just down right despicable action past the Crazy Teabagged Wackjob or her cronies and supporters.

is controlled by the republicans. Except the internet. That is why they are desperately trying to scam the Democrats into disapproving net neturality...They know that their message is getting out and the Democrats don't stand a snowball's chance in Hades to get the truth out there except thru the internet and they want to stifle that.

They're trying very hard to control the narrative these days. The worrisome part is that they're getting pretty good at it.