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Congressman Falls For Months-Old Onion Story About Planned Parenthood “Abortionplex”

Meet Rep. John Fleming, the unfortunate Republican congressman from Louisiana who made that wonderful and all-too-common mistake of thinking that an Onion article was real and telling his Facebook followers to read it. Fleming’s Facebook status, from Friday, was posted by Literally Unbelievable, a Tumblr that collects images of Facebookers who think Onion satires are the real deal and post them on their walls.

What’s doubly sad about this posting (obviously deleted now) is that The Onion article shared, “Planned Parenthood Opens $8 Billion Abortionplex,” is from May 2011 and is something of a viral classic, even inspiring some users of Yelp to “review” the facility described. So not only did Rep. Fleming (who calls abortion a “pernicious evil”) or at least one of his staffers believe Kansas now has an abortion clinic with “coffee shops, bars, dozens of restaurants and retail outlets, a three-story nightclub, and a 10-screen multiplex theater,” but it’s not even recent fake news. Read more.

How much President Barack Obama overshadows GOP candidates on Facebook, Twitter, and around the social web (via Overdrive Interactive)

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NOT YOUR PRESIDENT

An average day on Facebook, as visualized by the team at Jess3

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How to land a job at Google, Apple, and Facebook

via cnnmoneytech:

Laurie & I posted the Facebook deep dive we’ve been working on: A look at what data now shows up in Ticker & Timeline and at how to get your apps to quit transmitting that info.  

With that finished, I went back into my Facebook Privacy Settings to turn off all the sharing I’d enabled for research. I opened all my apps and looked at what data they gather, what they share and where. It’s a little eye-popping in some cases just how much information they reserve the right to grab.

But I also spotted an option I hadn’t seen before: “Last data access.” It’s an unobtrusive little text link in the app settings, but if you click “See details,” it will show you exactly what data the app in question has sucked in and when.

So I tried it for the Washington Post’s app — and found it dragged in pretty much everything it could get its hands on, from basic info like my current city (newspapers want to know where their readers are) to more sensitive details like my relationship status, family members and “religious and political views” (which are blank on Facebook. If it wants to know those, it ought to at least buy me a drink first.) 

The Washington Post settings aren’t unusual; most of my apps had accessed similar amounts of data. 

Go check yours. You might be surprised. Home -> Privacy Settings -> Apps and Websites -> Apps you use -> [pick an app] Edit -> Last data access: See details. -Stacy

Long live our resistance to change (even when it’s beneficial)!

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You bring up a good… wait, shut up!