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Facebook plays with your mind
xtabber:
The Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a formal complaint today with the Federal Trade Commission over Facebook's "experiment."
MilesAhead:
More like it rots it AFAIC.
-40hz (July 03, 2014, 05:54 PM)
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Hmm, perhaps they were the ones responsible for "rot13" ? :)
Renegade:
Anyone want to know that things are worse than you thought? ;)
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-09/pentagon-admits-spending-millions-study-social-media-manipulation
Let's look at paragraph #1 slowly...
Just days after a report published by researchers at Facebook revealed that users of the social media site had been manipulated for science,
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Because science. Yeah. Ok.
The Guardian reports that DARPA - the Pentagon-run Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency -
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Y'know... the dudes that do all the seriously mad-hatter crazy scientist stuff that is both mind-blowing and utterly terrifying?
has in one way or another funded several studies recently that set out to explore that social networking site,
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Several studies? About Facebook?
as well as users of Twitter,
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AND TWITTER!?!
Pinterest,
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AND PINTEREST!?!
Kickstarter
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AND KICKSTARTER!?!
and others.
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AND IT DOESN'T STOP THERE!?!
DARPA told the Guardian that the studies it has funded are essential to US defense interests.
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Right. Because terrorist, safety, and think of the children. Gotcha. Ok.
The article author makes the same point we do here all the time...
On the Pentagon’s part, DARPA told the Guardian that the studies it has funded are essential to US defense interests... Orwell would be proud
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