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Facebook interferes in local politics

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    #2
    Agent Coulson
    Registered Users Posts: 60,286 ✭✭✭✭Agent Coulson


    I'm shocked Shocked! I tell you that such an upstanding company would so such a thing.


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    biko
    Registered Users Posts: 81,223 ✭✭✭✭biko


    Let me be the first in this thread to say "It's a private company, they can do what they like.." :D


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,641 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Does anyone else sometimes share an article etc. with one headline only to have the headline switch around once shared, clicked on, etc?

    Like there's one today on a Bernie Sanders Op-ed, the headline I clicked was "Bernie Sanders: The US must support an even-handed approach in the Middle East" and what I got was "Bernie Sanders: The US must stop being an apologist to the Netanyahu government"

    Is that switcheroo on facebook's end or the media site's end?


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    [Deleted User]
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    Overheal wrote: »

    Is that switcheroo on facebook's end or the media site's end?


    Interesting. gave up Facebook years ago so I jhaven't seen that, but I assume the content creator is responsible for inputting the headline(s) and they chose that one to bypass filters and widen the potential audience.


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    Northernlily
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    Jesus OP. This should be a shock to absolutely no one. Come on and get with it.


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    Overheal
    Registered Users Posts: 81,641 ✭✭✭✭Overheal


    Same thing again with the same article, the headline in Google is “Bernie Sanders: The Approach the Israel-Palestine Conflict Needs”


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