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Does Facebook Categorize Users By Political Preferences?

A graphic circulating online in March 2018 brought new attention to one of the company's data-gathering tools.

by Arturo Garcia, Published April 3, 2018



Claim:
There is a section of every Facebook user profile that attempts to list them by political category.
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True

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In March 2018, amid story after damaging story about data-gathering and electoral manipulation using social media and increasing concerns over misuse of Facebook data for political purposes, a graphic that appeared online in March 2018 brought attention to how that information is tallied:

So apparently Facebook has you labeled as either Very liberal, liberal, moderate conservative or very conservative.

To view it you can go to settings > account settings > ads > your information > your categories > US Politics:


By Arturo Garcia

Arturo Garcia is a former writer for Snopes.


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