How To Find Out Which Political Label Facebook Has Given You

in news •  8 years ago 

Did you know that every time you like or share a post or a page on Facebook, the social media network is using your choices to collect data on what it thinks your political views are?

In fact, it even has you labeled under a certain category, and in this video we’re going to tell you exactly how to find out what that category is.

Conservative, Moderate or Liberal? Those are the three options Facebook uses, and if you’ve used the social media giant for awhile, there’s a good chance it thinks it has you figured out.

How do you find out which label Facebook has given you? Start by logging into your account on the desktop version of Facebook. Then go to facebook.com/ads/preferences. Click on the “more” tab and then click on the “Lifestyle and Culture” tab. Then click “see more” and scroll down to the box that is labeled “US Politics.” The word beneath it in parentheses is the political label Facebook has given you.

How does Facebook create this label? It could be as simple as you “liking” a conservative politician’s page or following a conservative media outlet. Or it it could be as tricky as you “liking” a page that has nothing to do with politics, such as Target or Starbucks, and if the majority of their followers have been labeled as liberals, then you might be labeled as one too.

Read more -- http://wearechange.org/how-to-find-out-which-political-label-facebook-has-given-you/

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Just got all my preferences deleted. And In i'm not an active user, so not much information in mine.

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An old greedy broken relic from yesteryear.

I just checked mine ... now I feel dirty :(

Thanks for the info.

old fashion division is really stupid in present time . there are more colours then white , grey and clack

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Where did they go??

Yeah, I don't see a "politics" section on my lifestyle and culture tab.

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