New Facebook tool reveals if your account was a cog in the Russian propaganda machine

Dec22

by Sindy Cator on December 22, 2017 at 9:40 pm

A new Facebook tool allows users to see just how vulnerable they were to Russian propaganda during the 2016 election. The tool, conveniently tucked away in Facebook’s Help Center, scans past posts in an attempt to link them to known propaganda Pages, some of which have since been deleted. I love how I see THIS in my Facebook feed today and not the fact Facebook’s Russian propaganda tool is out. If they really wanted users to check, least they could do is a post that looks like this instead of burying it in the Help Center and announcing on a…