fsttx

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   by fsttx 10y ago

   Look for [redacted]. It's an obvious fake, but you can go down the rabbit hole from there. *I hope you got the name. I've redacted it for obvious reasons.
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   by fsttx 10y ago

   The thing is, do you have only 5-10 FB Friends with eerily similar sterile accounts in a little-self contained social graph? Have you added a college to your profile, but have no Friends from that college? I've got a fake FB account fo
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   by fsttx 10y ago

   I mentioned that this happened on Conservative sites, and it was during the Primaries. It seems unlikely that, under those circumstances, people would be so shy about expressing their preferences. Also these are not just stand-alone fake ac
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   by fsttx 10y ago

   There's an angle that hasn't been explored that ought to be: a lot of news and political commentary websites used to run their own comment systems for articles or use pseudonymous services like Disqus, but these were overrun by &q
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   by fsttx 10y ago

   Another useful tactic is to archive news and commentary (left and right) about current political events, both for accountability and perhaps, to prevent the rewriting of history in the era of "alternative facts".