Facebook spying ...
 

Here's something that was interesting. Buried in the details of your
Facebook account is Facebook's rating as to your probable political
leanings. Ranges from very liberal, liberal, moderate, conservative and
very conservative.

The classification is based upon your history of reading various posts
and articles of a political nature. Not sure if it's only those read
directly from Facebook or, like advertising, it's a result of info
Google collects on you and sells to marketing companies.


Here's how to check. The instructions say to do it from a desktop, so I
don't know if mobile devices like a smart phone works"

Log onto your Facebook account. While logged on, go to:

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

scroll down to "Your information" and click on it.

It will display info "about you". Click on the grey "your categories"
beside "about you".

In the right hand column it will say: US Politics and then a rating.
I am rated a "moderate".

Here's a link that describes the whole thing. It provides directions
and links as well:

https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/facebook-ads-classify-users-political-views-how-to-change

Facebook spying ...
 

On Sun, 28 Jan 2018 09:49:56 -0500, "Mr. Luddite"
wrote:



Here's something that was interesting. Buried in the details of your
Facebook account is Facebook's rating as to your probable political
leanings. Ranges from very liberal, liberal, moderate, conservative and
very conservative.

The classification is based upon your history of reading various posts
and articles of a political nature. Not sure if it's only those read
directly from Facebook or, like advertising, it's a result of info
Google collects on you and sells to marketing companies.


Here's how to check. The instructions say to do it from a desktop, so I
don't know if mobile devices like a smart phone works"

Log onto your Facebook account. While logged on, go to:

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

scroll down to "Your information" and click on it.

It will display info "about you". Click on the grey "your categories"
beside "about you".

In the right hand column it will say: US Politics and then a rating.
I am rated a "moderate".

Here's a link that describes the whole thing. It provides directions
and links as well:

https://www.thrillist.com/tech/nation/facebook-ads-classify-users-political-views-how-to-change

My dog seems to be very conservative. Maybe more than me. ;-)