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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by envy2 on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:10PM (#19523549)
You have to change the country in the top right.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by danpalmer on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:46PM (#19523903)
This did not work. It appears to return the same results as when set to the US. It is saving the country preference though.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by danpalmer on Saturday March 30, 2019 @10:13AM (#19529473)
I managed to get it to work after manually editing the URLs, although clicking the wrong thing or refreshing the page would reset this.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by simlevesque on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:48PM (#19523919)
Do you know why Canada is not present ?
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by doctorRetro on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:00PM (#19524023)
It's there, but further down. The list goes Austria to United States, then Afghanistan to Zimbabwe... for some reason. Canada is in the second block. Again, for some reason.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by BartBoch on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:06PM (#19524071)
The beauty of UX. Or lack of it.
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by epicide on Friday March 29, 2019 @02:22PM (#19524196)
Things like this always remind me of this awesome talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4

The example starting at 9:45 especially relates.

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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by mindgam3 on Friday March 29, 2019 @03:52PM (#19525007)
FYI, there is a neat trick for deep linking directly to timestamps on youtube, for example https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KVyFio8gw4&t=9m45s
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Re:Facebook launches searchable transparency library of all ... by AareyBaba on Friday March 29, 2019 @05:33PM (#19525863)
or right click on the video and "Copy video URL at current time"
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