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    How does Facebook rate you politically?

    You can find out.

    Go here: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences

    Then click on the Your Information box, which should be like the 3rd one down.

    Then within "Your Information", click on "Your categories".

    Look for a box in there which says "US Politics", and it will say how it rates you.

    For me, it says "US Politics (very conservative)".

    Much of this is based upon posts you share and groups you've joined, but it also uses keywords in your own posts to determine this.

    Facebook collects this information for advertisers, so they can target ads according to your political leanings.

    It also rates me as a "Frequent Traveler", presumably because I log into Facebook from many different secret locations.

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    Mine shows US politics (liberal)...

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    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Mine shows US politics (liberal)...
    Do you think that's accurate?

    I think "very conservative" is probably too far right to describe me. I'd probably be better described as "conservative". However, I understand Facebook's rating, as I am a member of a number of very conservative groups.

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    I don't even have a "US Politics" box.
    I am not active at all on facebook though, so maybe you have to maintain some level of activity to have a rating.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Mine shows US politics (liberal)...
    Do you think that's accurate?

    I think "very conservative" is probably too far right to describe me. I'd probably be better described as "conservative". However, I understand Facebook's rating, as I am a member of a number of very conservative groups.
    If your politics align with Ben Shapiro’s, or even close on most topics, you would be considered “very conservative”. And you’ve already said that you agree quite often with Stephen Crowder, so that would also identify you as “very conservative”. And you seem to get a lot of news from Breitbart News, Fox News, and The Drudge Report, so, yeah, you would definitely be tagged as “very conservative”.

    And remember that Facebook probably identifies the political alignment based on the mapping of your media choices, including how much time you spend reading articles on those sites through FB, not the opinions you actually espouse in comments.

    But getting back to the two notable commentators I first mentioned here, consider the following question:

    Assuming that Shapiro and Crowder are identified as “very conservative”, on what issues do you hold a considerable more liberal position than either of them based on published comments they have made? Meaning, can you easily identify a number of distinct issues in which there is considerable political daylight between your position and either of theirs?
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    Quote Originally Posted by verminaard View Post
    I don't even have a "US Politics" box.
    I am not active at all on facebook though, so maybe you have to maintain some level of activity to have a rating.
    I’m quite active on FB, but also don’t have a “US politics” category, at least not per the mobile version.

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    But I remember that awhile back, I reviewed these categories when I was primarily using a laptop and deleted “US politics” as a category to reduce the likelihood of political ads flooding my newsfeed.
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    Were Republicans cowardly or unethical not to go along with [convicting Trump in the second impeachment Senate trial]? No. The smart move was to reject it.

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    The joys of not posting or liking shit shit on facebook so they can't profile me.

    Mine says....

    "You do not have any behaviors in your ad preferences."

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    LULZ at being on joobook in the current year.

     
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    Interesting, I have no such box.

    I think its because FB bombarded me with pro-Trump articles/ads for about 6 months and I reported each of them for hate speech and they just kinda got the message I suppose.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Mine shows US politics (liberal)...
    Do you think that's accurate?

    I think "very conservative" is probably too far right to describe me. I'd probably be better described as "conservative". However, I understand Facebook's rating, as I am a member of a number of very conservative groups.

    I really dont post much on there anymore, but i was slightly surprised. Although, i'm starting to wonder if they only have 4 categories for it so then it makes sense, i suppose.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Dan Druff View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by gut View Post
    Mine shows US politics (liberal)...
    Do you think that's accurate?

    I think "very conservative" is probably too far right to describe me. I'd probably be better described as "conservative". However, I understand Facebook's rating, as I am a member of a number of very conservative groups.
    very conservative and far right arent the same thing

     
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    mine says "Liberal" but my facebook account is a fake Jewish-named person with zero friends that I use to gather intel on normies

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    mine says i have cancer......
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    Quote Originally Posted by LarryLaffer View Post
    mine says i have cancer......

    You are such a piece of shit for even dreaming that any road you are capable of taking is higher than CMoneys.

    No offense though.

     
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    Liberal. Also frequent traveler.

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    mine just says playa

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    Also "close friends of expats".

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    Mine says Moderate. I voted for Trump and a Republican.

     
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    Liberal - not accurate

    Really sorta frightening
    Been thinking about fb deletion for a while now

     
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