If you are on Facebook or any other social media, the enemy is "inside the wire". Bots and trolls

[Atticus]

foreign and domestic are attacking and slandering Democrats all over the country, sometimes posing as "concerned citizens"; sometimes even as fellow Democrats. Keep your BS-ometer turned on and be skeptical of anyone peddling fear, doubt and division.

Eyes on the prize.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Absolutely! Eyes on the prize and hands on the air freshner when bulls**t pops up! NT

[jberryhill]

2. Also lookout for persons lacking a sense of irony

[Sherman A1]

3. I am on FB

I have noted no posts attacking and/or slandering Democrats on the pages I visit or in my newsfeed. Actually much the opposite.

It depends upon spending a little time maintaining your page there and not allowing yourself to be subject to waves of nonsense.

[John1956PA]

4. I have a Fb "friend," a right winger, who posted an anti-Democratic meme.

The meme is laughably stupid. Unfortunately, low information voters fall for trash like this, especially when it is presented, as this one was, in large white type against a dark-patterned background. Here is the meme in all of its multi-leveled idiocy: "Were any of you aware that ALL the Democrats voted AGAINST the 2.8% Social Security cost of living increase?"

The nonsensical meme seems to be stating that all Democratic Congress members voted against passage of the upcoming Social Security cost-of-living adjustment (COLA). The truth is that, since 1975, Congress does not vote on such increases, as they are implemented by a certain government bureau which determines the appropriate amount, if any, of the increase in Social Security benefits for a given year.

One of the reasons that this canard has appeared at this time could be to inoculate Rethugs from backlash regarding McConnell's recent statement suggesting that entitlements will have to be cut in order to confront the widening annual deficits and the ballooning national debt.

[Sherman A1]

5. It's simple to hide the post and

usually to block the source of the Meme themselves. A little maintenance on the part of the individual and one's newsfeed becomes ever so much more pleasant.

[LeftInTX]

8. If you are arguing, you're fighting a losing battle......

Just ignore and/or seek common ground. FB is not about running campaigns and winning votes. Too many people get into political squabbles, thinking they can "change" people.

[John1956PA]

9. You are correct about not arguing. In this case, I posted simply the facts so others could benefit.

In reply to the Fb post with the absurd meme I mentioned above, I stated that the meme is false because Congress does not vote on cost-of-living adjustments (COLA) regarding Social Security benefits. I did so to provide other viewers of the Facebook page a chance to read the truth. Since the time I posted my reply to that post, there has been no activity regarding it.

[LeftInTX]

7. I talked with a voter who is "FB friends" with all of her neighbors (They're Republican) Ouch

I have a few Republican friends, but I hide my political posts from them.

One guy is my master gardener mentor. Boy he supports the Confederacy.....I just ignore he posts, but he also cheers me on, when he sees my activism.

Other than that, I don't have time for all these trolls. I'm picky about my friends etc.

[Hortensis]

6. Since I learned that our brains can and do store lies

in our funds of knowledge *without including our former awareness that they are lies,* I've been a lot more careful about what I expose myself to. And by never looking at FB news and other political functions, they can't target me with their specialized

DU is also a social medium, of course. Some don't see it that way, but it is, and every day malicious RW agents plant disinformation and try to fan division here, all with an aim of suppressing and subverting votes. Of course.

They're constantly monitored for by various means and blocked when sufficiently identified, but some manage to embed in the community by keeping their poisonous messages subtle, while others inject big doses, get identified and banned, and return to do it all over again. A constant, ongoing battle.