FaceBook

[bigguy]

Facebook can offer a lot of good things. I've reconnected with long lost friends I would never have found any other way. I follow several sites that keep me informed in areas of interest. It has also been an invaluable business tool.

I am aware that they have a proprietary algorithm that selects items to be shown in my news feed. I even appreciate that they may occasionally dump something in that I would not have stumbled across otherwise.

But I can't abide the increasingly liberal flavor of my feed. I belong to this and one other motorcycle forum, and I'd describe them as fairly politically conservative. I belong to two gun forums and I'd defiantly describe them as politically conservative. So you can imagine then that my list of Facebook friends trends to a politically conservative spectrum.

So then, why the hell do I keep getting crap like this in my feed:



I've noticed over the last few weeks, that I'm seeing more and more posts from folks I don't know with some liberal meme. A less trusting person might suspect the good folks at Facebook have thier finger on the scale.

[Daniel Meyer]

It will usually tell you. "Sponsored" are the ones they give you unasked. Most everything else was liked or commented on by one of the folks in your friends list...should tell you that right above the post.

Hence why I don't comment on most of the inane crap on FB...my commenting makes it show on my feed, and thus, in all my friend's feeds.

Sometimes can't resist a bit of rabble-rousing though...yanno?

[bigguy]

You're right. Looking closer I see it was liked by one of my more "progressive" colleges.

Well then, at least they get the stuff I "like" on their time lines.

[DarkSideR]

If you use Google Chrome install the AdBlock extension that will block all Ad's including FB Ads. If that isn't an option then usually there is an option in that specific post to hide, unfollow, hide all future posts from that user, or group. Good Luck.