Who Creates Unofficial Facebook Pages for Local Businesses?

Thread starter Stephen Tashi
Start date Oct 27, 2015

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Unofficial Facebook pages for local businesses are often created automatically by Facebook, primarily sourced from Wikipedia entries. This process is not limited to businesses; it also includes profiles for public figures such as actors and game producers. The automatic generation of these pages raises questions about the accuracy and control local businesses have over their online representation.

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Oct 27, 2015

Stephen Tashi

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I notice that various local businesses have "unofficial" Facebook pages. Does Facebook itself create these pages?

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Oct 27, 2015

Borek

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As far as I know at least some fb profiles are automatically created from the wikipedia pages. I have seen such profiles of actors and at least one game producer.