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Asked: 2026-06-11T00:59:32+00:00

I admin a couple pages on FB and we recently got hit by a

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I admin a couple pages on FB and we recently got hit by a supposedly fake page.

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Duke-St-Rollins/478408292178951

The page is supposedly a duplicate of this user:

http://www.facebook.com/DukeStRollins

However. When I entered this into Graph.facebook.com/478408292178951 I got this returned: 

{
   "name": "Duke St. Rollins",
   "is_published": true,
   "talking_about_count": 2,
   "category": "Public figure",
   "id": "478408292178951",
   "link": "http://www.facebook.com/pages/Duke-St-Rollins/478408292178951",
   "likes": 2
}

When I entered THIS into graph.facebook.com/Duke-St-Rollins I got this returned:

{
   "name": "Duke St. Rollins",
   "is_published": true,
   "username": "DukeStRollins",
   "about": "World famous troll and nemesis of teabaggers.",
   "bio": "Press!\n\nhttp://blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com/bastard/2012/07/duke_st_rollins_on_jan_brewer.php \n\nhttp://madmikesamerica.com/2012/07/an-interview-with-duke-st-rollins/\n\nYouTube Channel\nhttp://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_xk6GQzKacHImYl3Vns4VQ\n",
   "personal_info": "Follow me on Twitter  ",
   "talking_about_count": 6450,
   "category": "Public figure",
   "id": "204170076355643",
   "link": "http://www.facebook.com/DukeStRollins",
   "likes": 9459,
   "cover": {
      "cover_id": 261500633955920,
      "source": "http://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/s720x720/376513_261500633955920_779910133_n.jpg",
      "offset_y": 92
   }
}

If I am understanding how this works correctly, and did this right, does this mean the supposed ‘fake’ FB page is actually owned by the ‘real’ Duke?

If I have this wrong (and I hope I do), can someone please explain this to me slowly, like you are talking to a kid as I am TOTALLY new to doing the FB page stuff and until yesterday, never even knew about graph.facebook stuff.

Consider me a noob. Because I am. But I’d really like to know if what I think I am seeing, is what I fear.

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  1. Editorial Team

    No, they aren’t the same. The former is a page/public figure. The latter is a user. You can tell them apart by their different IDs (478408292178951 / 204170076355643). They share the same name but can’t share the same graph api address because hyphens are ignored (try http://graph.facebook.com/Duke————-StRollins), which means DukeStRollins and Duke-St-Rollins are effectively identical.

    This is in my opinion a glitch in the API: a query by name should be able to distinguish between these two resources, even if a hyphen – is the only difference between their names; that there is not just makes it easier for the spoofer to confuse people.

    You’ve probably already seen this: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/api/

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