Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
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Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#2Its not showing up for me, even after clicking 'see more' until the end. Maybe a US-only thing?
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#3Thanks NYT for pointing me to this hilarious section of Facebook. My hobbies apparently include 'tears', and my only food and drink interest is 'bread roll'.
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#4TL;DR: for those hitting a paywall:
1) Go to https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences
2) Open the Lifestyle and culture tab under the Interests section
3) Find the US Politics box and see what Facebook thinks you are in the parentheses
Edit: Apparently I am targeted for ads related to bubble wrap.
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#5Interesting information here from Facebook - I don't know why Facebook thinks I like coffee - I never drink it nor why it insists I thinks I'm a fascist who likes bucket hats.
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#6TL;DR: for those hitting a paywall: 1) Go to https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences 2) Open the Lifestyle and culture tab under the Interests section 3) Find the US Politics box and see what Facebook thinks you are in the parentheses Edit: Apparently I am targeted for ads related to bubble wrap.
And of course you'll only have the "US Politics" box if you are in the US
(but I get "equivalent" results)
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#7Argh! Has anyone else turned this off and had it turn on again by "itself"?
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#8I had written a small blog post about a few weeks back. This tab has been covered many times by other news organisations, especially when Facebook data mining procedures first resulted in a light scare wave.
I'll quote myself:
'...the really scary thing is that it likely knows much more, and these are only a part of what it knows. Although these are said to be used for displaying adverts, they are updated regardless of whether or not you are opted out of the interest-based adverts program.'
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#9Apparently "Democracy" is one of the ad groups I'm targeted for, along with both "Republican Party (United States)" and "Democratic Party (United States)".
Weirdly "In-N-Out Burger" is also listed, despite the fact they don't exist where I live (UK). The suggested ad. preferences are also a little odd - it's almost entirely hip-hop related for no apparent reason (Ghostface Killah/rza/Raekwon/gza/Ol' Dirty Bastard/KRS-One/Computer data storage/Nas/Busta Rhymes/Big L).
I also note that "information [includes] actions you take on and off Facebook". I assume this refers to embedded Like buttons and similar?
Re: Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You
#10Is there something similar for google ??