Survey Says: Facebook Goofed, But Why The Long Political News Quiz?

Some Facebook users were invited to take a survey from the social network -- in error, as it turns out -- and the survey evolved into a quiz about political news.

Some Facebook users were invited to take a survey from the social network — in error, as it turns out — and the survey evolved into a quiz about political news.

Marketing Land reported on and captured images of the survey, later receiving this response from Facebook:

For a brief period of time, an incomplete test survey was visible to a small percentage of users. This survey has been removed.

According to Marketing Land, the survey was introduced with this message at the top of the news feed:

Before the shift to the quiz on politics, the survey sought information on the following topics from respondents:

  • Overall satisfaction with Facebook.
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