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Politics Comes to Facebook

Started by Nick O'Neill · 10 months ago

Facebook quietly rolled out a new application earlier this week. The politics application gives users the ability to support their favorite politicians and view each politician’s profile. Additionally you can view which politicians your friends support. A bunch of other political appl ... Continue reading »

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  • Actually, Facebook *did* add it to people's profiles automatically.

    In the past, if you had gone to a candidate's profile and pressed the "Support this candidate" box, then I believe you were added to a group with the same name. Later, I think Facebook changed it to just being a "friend" of that politician.

    Now, they have gone and silently installed this app on the profiles of everyone who had clicked the link to support a candidate. I know this because they added it to my own profile after I indicated my support of a Senatorial candidate last year, an experience corroborated by some of my Facebook friends as well.

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