Posted on 10/31/2014 11:02:58 AM PDT by leapfrog0202
Facebook is mining its data of users' posts to find out how users feel about certain candidates or issues and sharing that data with ABC News and BuzzFeed for use in their 2016 reporting, the social-networking site will announce on Friday.
The data will be gathered from the posts of Facebook users in the United States 18 and older, classifying sentiments about a politician or issue as positive, negative or neutral. The data can also be broken down into sentiments by gender and location, making it possible to see how Facebook users in the key primary states of Iowa or New Hampshire feel about certain presidential candidates, or how women in Florida feel about same-sex marriage.
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BuzzFeed will focus on using the data around issues in ongoing stories, and will feature the data in their news app.
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Despite the Beltway reliance on social media sites like Twitter, a recent Pew study found that 48 percent of Americans get their political news from Facebook, compared to just 14 percent on YouTube or 9 percent on Twitter.
"We are always looking for new and interesting ways to tell stories and engage with viewers. This rich trove of data will allow us to do just that -- helping us identify the most important trends and the most stimulating conversations happening around the 2016 election cycle," ABC news president James Goldston said in a statement.
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This will just allow the MSM to generate a bunch of stories claiming that the nation is distraught over the GOP win, based on the work of a handful of Facebook trolls.
That is because there is nothing special about Politico, not an especially interesting website.
This story tells me that ABC and other news orgs are still failing and flailing, they are not reliable and respectable news organizations.
—hummmm- if they check mine (which I suspect only three of my “friends” read , it’ll sure show an anti-Demo lean-—I plaster it with everything anti-Obama I find-—
I plaster it with everything anti-Obama I find
So do I!
Who needs Facebook when you have Free Republic!!
Well, FB knows mine, believe me.
Are they using my real fake name to collect data is the question.
With so many fake identities on Facebook how reliable can their data mining be. Facebook is full of themselves.
They can mine away on my fake facebook account all they want. I use it only as a convenient access method for hundreds of thousands of websites that accept facebook login credentials, or even better, simply accept the facebook logged-on cookie and consider me already logged onto their site.
(BTW, would here anyone be surprised to know that my mined fake facebook account would show that I’m a shell backed conservative?)
—and , to avoid being totally negative, I post nearly every pro-firearms piece I see, also-—
Raise your hand if you are surprised by this.
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That’s it. Raise them high.
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Okay...
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Curl your hand in to a fist and punch yourself in the face for being so naive/stupid.
Facebook keeps a history of not only what pages you go to, but every like you click and correlates them to associate people into categories...essentially doing psychological profiles. It’s not perfect, but there’s a lot of data mining available to them.
I cancelled my Facebook on November 7, 2012.
Who needs Facebook when you have Free Republic!!
God help us.
Another reason to ditch facebook
It’s whatever ID you are logged in under.
Facebook exists for the purpose of data-mining as much as it can about its users, no matter what subject.
“The president has put in place an organization that contains a kind of database that no one has ever seen before in life. That’s going to be very, very powerful.”
And that database will have information about everything on every individual in ways that it’s never been done before.”
Maxine Waters
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