Just discovered an "African-Americans for Ted"(Cruz) Facebook page

[Ken Burch]

(It was one of those things where they "suggest" random pages for you...which is how I also found out about the "Forget God, I'm Telling Olivia Benson" page a lot of other folks here might also enjoy).

I went to it and posted "Have fun, both of you", but all posts have to be approved of by the mods, so it may not end up there.

Just thought I'd let folks here know it exists.

[dewsgirl]

1. I am 99.9% sure you have found a fake news/bot page.

[Ken Burch]

6. There didn't seem to be any messages on it.

n/t.

[HipChick]

2. Probabely Russian honeypot...

[Clarity2]

3. Yep russians

Same bs pages that went up during campaign.

[Ken Burch]

5. Yeah, that makes sense.

Wasn't planning on going back to it or anything.

[underthematrix]

4. I consider FACEBOOK a rightwing cesspool of politics. YOu get in their loop if you

follow any news show that does political commentary. I watch Maddow and Lawrence daily and Joy on weekends and whenever she's on in the week (except on MTP). I don't follow any of them on FB or Twitter.

However, Russian bots are trying to target African Americans through the TV shows they watch. They seem to pop up on Scandal and HTGAWM. I haven't seen them on the OWN shows I watch.

AfAms seem to ignore them.

[kimbutgar]

7. Whenever I see pages like this with phony looking posts and pictures I report them to Facebook.

Please report that page to them.

[Ken Burch]

8. OK.

Just reported it. Not sure if they'll act.

[Clarity2]

9. Also wanted to add

Bill Maher had a guest on last night who said he spoke with Facebook on the subject. I was pretty annoyed because Maher kept interrupting him, and the guest never got out what he was going to say. But I got the impression he was going to say FB just didn't get a damn about what is going on their website. He did say they won't change their behavior.