I think Trump team is up to something on FB..I noticed

[helpisontheway]

that in several of my groups (Weight Watchers,Royal Caribbean, etc) live parties are being hosted with Trump speeches and the Republican portions of the opening statement. I reported this one lady and got it deleted. She swears she did not start the live watch party. I looked at her profile and she did not seem like a Trumpie at all. Then someone said they also had that happen in their groups too. One person thinks it is bots. Someone else said some sort of virus. I think it is something the Trump campaign and Zuckerberg cooked up in their meeting. Or the FB people know all about it and are not doing a thing to stop it. And all of this started once the Republicans started their liefest.

[Bev54]

1. The same thing happened to a British group

I belong to and they went nuts because why would someone have a watch party of the US politics on a British group that has nothing to do with politics.

[helpisontheway]

2. Exactly. ...my groups were not related to politics..Today was the first time

I put it together.

[renate]

3. how hard can it be for Facebook to stop this from happening on their own damn platform?

I'm not a programmer, I admit, but is it genuinely this difficult? It seems different from a virus or a security hole... this is Russia using Facebook to set up live watch parties on Facebook.

Hopefully this will be more of a turn-off than a net positive, and more and more people will realize that Facebook is just a vehicle for annoying Russian propaganda.

[helpisontheway]

5. A lot of people in my groups were upset about it. Nt

[nini]

4. there's a problem with the watch party thing on Facebook

I'm seeing all kinds of different things being shared to groups not just the Hitler wannabe.

[EllieBC]

6. Most of the groups I'm in

take a hard no politicking stance (parenting groups, makeup groups, cooking groups).

Recommend it to your group Modmins.

[helpisontheway]

8. I reported it to mods and they took care of it. Nt

[Wounded Bear]

7. I've seen shit on FB from hackers...

bullshit from a friend that I know doesn't really do politics.

I'm learning to ignore the obviously suspicious shit.

[Dr Vegas]

9. happened twice in one day

I belong to the Puddles Pity Party FB group, and this happen twice from two different people and both claimed it was an accident but neither one attempted to self-delete their posts. The Moderator finally posted today and gave a warning out to followers to be more careful but now I read this I think something is up.

[helpisontheway]

10. Exactly. I went off on the lady about her post. She said she did not do it but

she did not attempt to remove it. The mods had to take care of it.