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The New Way to Use Facebook Without the Government Knowing
Facebook has collected billions of bits of information on the private lives of the hordes of people who spend hours every day on the social network. Now the company is chasing users who have
Read More »US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research
The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to
Read More »Facebook always experimenting on users: Ex-employee
A former Facebook employee has alleged that the social media giant is always experimenting on its users. Andrew Ledvina, who was on Facebook's Data Science team from February 2012 to July 2013, said the team
Read More »Facebook apologises for psychological experiments on users
The second most powerful executive at the company, Sheryl Sandberg, says experiments were ‘poorly communicated’ Facebook’s second most powerful executive, Sheryl Sandberg, has apologised for the conduct of secret psychological tests on nearly 700,000 users
Read More »Facebook’s Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas There has been quite a bit of
Read More »Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood Manipulation Experiment
It was probably legal. But was it ethical? Facebook’s News Feed—the main list of status updates, messages, and photos you see when you open Facebook on your computer or phone—is not a perfect mirror of
Read More »Facebook reveals news feed experiment to control emotions
Protests over secret ѕtudу invоlving 689,000 uѕеrѕ in which friends' postings wеrе mоvеd tо influеnсе moods It аlrеаdу knows whether уоu are ѕinglе or dating, the firѕt ѕсhооl you went tо аnd whеthеr уоu likе
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