Question: are teabagger organizations hijacking Facebook accounts?

[backscatter712]

The reason I'm asking this is because one of my Facebook friends, who has expressed some progressive views in the past, just out of nowhere posted about six updates in a row with links to tea party sites, WingNutDaily stories about William Ayers, other right wing insanity.

I'm wondering if her account got pwned by some right-wing organization, say that uses those surveys & such to harvest people's Facebook information and use it to send nastygrams to members of Congress.

Anyone else seeing this?

[YOY]

1. No but I have had a Paul-head post so much RP stuff that I unfriended him.

Makes me want to rewatch "Bruno".

[backscatter712]

7. I remember that scene from Bruno.

:evilgrin:

[47of74]

2. I haven't seen that myself

But one of my facebook friends had her account hacked and it got used to send out links to nasty web sites.

[Skinner]

3. Or maybe she's one of those progressives that hates Barack Obama so much...

...that she'll believe any lie written about him, even if it comes from a right-wing rag.

[backscatter712]

5. Hard to say...

I try not to talk politics too much on Facebook personally, and I tend to quarantine my political posts to a sublist of friends that I work with in liberal and activist activities, so I can say I haven't talked politics too much with this particular friend.

That and the posts spread out about more than just President Obama - talking about gun control conspiracy theories, the writings of Sarah Palin, that sort of thing. It doesn't fit the pattern of a PUMA. Either her account got hijacked, or she drank the right-wing Kool-Aid.

[havocmom]

4. haven't checked facebook in months, but when I hear people talkin about it,

seems there are a lot of RW sheep grazing heavily at the site. Sometime people just go along with what they perceive as the majority. A vocal minority picks up followers that way. Too many folks go with a herd rather than think for themselves.

[backscatter712]

8. It depends on the circles you're in.

Sure there are some right-wingers, but there's also lots of progressive people on Facebook, with their own groups & such.

[Pyrzqxgl]

6. I'm a big fan of old Western Movies

There are several Facebook sites devoted to Western Movies and the big gun
lobbies are moving in on them. I'm not in it for the shooting. I like my sixguns
to have as many shots as it takes for the scene. Gene Autry's OK with a gun,
but I like him with a guitar better. I watch Hoot Gibson for the humor. I like
sidekicks like Gabby Hayes (yur durn tootin'). I really resent the fact that I
like western movie lore being turned into some Conservative political crap & even
more I resent the guy trying to sell me guns. I don't remember seeing an assault
rifle in a Western movie. As for Tea baggers. I'm a coffee man myself.

[Mari333]

9. Code Pink on Facebook page is inundated with jerks who post on there

I dont know who started the page, but I would be deleting them right and left.