Facebook Graph Manual: 97 pages manual with clever search phrases
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Finally, a 97 pages manual about Facebook Graph (v1.03) Renowned internet expert and investigative reporter Henk van Ess shows his best tricks during #vvoj2013, a conference for investigative reporters in NL and B (www.vvoj.nl) 11/16/13 Version 1.00 Summary of workshop for www.vvoj.nl 11/17/13 Version 1.01 Corrected some typo's 11/17/13 Version 1.02 Included three slides about the difference between Google and Facebook (slide 20 and up) 11/18/13 Version 1.03 Fixed some typo's, included syntax list 11/19/13 Version 1.04 Included a first draft of what professions you can search - on slide 39
Transcript of Facebook Graph Manual: 97 pages manual with clever search phrases
Let’s get personal
WORKING WITH FACEBOOK GRAPH
Greenpeace: the complete deep web
Greenpeace: the complete deep web
Greenpeace: the complete deep web
Greenpeace: the complete deep web
http://readwrite.com/2010/01/09/facebooks_zuckerberg_says_the_age_of_privacy_is_ov
Zuckerberg about privacy: the social norm changed
New Facebook
Facebook Graph
• combine 10.000+ facts of Facebook users in a way that was never available before. Not officially available outside US. But just change language settings to US English and you’re in.
• allows reporters to find people during breaking news, but also creates leads for investigative journalism
Breaking news
Leads for a story
Sometimes scary
• if you are the one that is investigated :)
http://app.thefacesoffacebook.com
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/technology&id=9319302
So what?
• If people reveal they like an event, in this case an event closed for the general public, chances are they are a reporter themselves. Checking out likes of other closed events makes sense: you see what people attended and can ask them what happened
Google vs Facebook
• Facebook isn’t in Google: it has it’s own database
Google:
Facebook:
Test:
• Find at least three people who liked the congress
So what?
• You can’t search for postings yet
• Comments on photos can be valuable to find out what triggers people you research
So what?
• Searching for “photos of vvoj congres 2013” results in photos of that page, not per se photos of the event itself. Searching for “photos by people who like <event>” is an alternative query
Facebook Graph
• search the likes / activities combined with work information
• “Interests from people who are Waiters and were actors”
It has a learning curve
• 10.000+ narrowly defined building blocks allow you to solve complex search problems, but only if you translate your problem into the very specific Graph-language
How do i find
• somebody who is unemployed and worked for the Ministerie van Defensie (Dutch)
UWV = unemployment office
If Graph fails…
it shows you web results
Right syntax
Personal Search
Use the right blocks
Filter out the Fakers
Mind your language
You search in English, but don’t use translations
PHOTO SEARCH
Album
other operators"for picture search
COMPANIES
Some general operators
Combined operators
• how do I find Germans who have a holiday in Amsterdam?
• How do I find same sex couples?
About secret groups
The new “secret groups” won’t reveal anything
But closed groups do
Just click on the name
names of 2103 veterans
170 names of people who work at NATO
72 names of officers
How would you find
• people working at soccer clubs who like online gambling?
So what do you do?
Follow me
• @henkvaness
• www.forreporters.com/searchbistro
