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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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