Apparently reporters now take the holidays off.
Just like the President?
An interesting choice. Facebook remembers
anything you followed, but not what you saw?
Here’s
how to check if you interacted with Russian propaganda on Facebook
during the 2016 election
Facebook has rolled out its
new hub to help
some users figure out if they interacted with Russian propaganda
during the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The social giant’s tool —
available
here, through its Help Center — specifically allows users to
see if they followed or “Liked” any pages and accounts set up by
Kremlin-backed trolls on either Facebook or Instagram.
Over the course of the 2016
election, Facebook estimates that roughly 140 million users may have
seen Russian propaganda in their News Feeds or on Instagram. Much of
that content sought to sow social and political unrest around
divisive issues like race, religion and LGBT rights.
But only a small slice of
those 140 million affected users can actually take advantage of
Facebook’s new tool, which
it first previewed in November. That’s because the portal only
aids those who directly followed one of the accounts or pages set up
by Russian sources on Instagram and Facebook. It does not help users
who may have simply seen Kremlin-sponsored content because their
friends “Liked” it and it subsequently appeared in their own News
Feeds.
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