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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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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
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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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An Occult History of the Television Set
The origin of the television set was heavily shrouded in both spiritualism and the occult, writes author Stefan Andriopoulos in his new book Ghostly Apparitions. In fact, as its very name implies, the television
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Facebook Moves to Create Virtual Reality World of Social Control
Control the environment and you control human behavior and, ultimately, the destiny of humanity Earlier this week, Facebook dropped $2 billion to buy the virtual reality company Oculus Rift, described by Dave Thier of Forbes
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Brain Washing, Social Control and Programming – Why You Should Kill Your Television
Schooling plays a big role in programming the population, but the most potent and prevalent educational tools are the mass media. These are devised to reach a large audience via the broadcasting of information
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