Facebook Mind Control Experiments Linked to DoD Research on Civil Unrest
Facebook’s experiment on over half-a-million unsuspecting users has taken a new twist with the revelation that a researcher connected to a Department of Defense-funded program to use the military to quell civil unrest also participated in the study.
Social media sites exploded over the weekend after it was revealed that Facebook, no stranger to controversy of late, secretly manipulated posts being seen by nearly 700,000 users in 2012 in order to allow researchers to study how emotional states are transmitted over the platform.
http://rt.com/usa/169848-pentagon-facebook-study-minerva/
Facebook’s ‘Social Experiment’ Triggers Public Outcry
How are you feeling? Facebook wants to know. Wait, scratch that — Facebook may already know. A just-published report about a 2012 study suddenly has the Internet buzzing with concern, once again, over Facebook policies.
This week’s debate relates to the secretive social experiment Facebook conducted on a random selection of 689,003 of its one billion-plus users. According to an article published June 17, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Facebook and Cornell University were testing whether certain emotions could be manipulated and would then spread among people without face-to-face contact.
http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=93256
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/facebook-mind-control-experiments-linked-to-dod-research-on-civil-unrest/#O8pBpJCUKDSXeFR6.99
Facebook’s experiment on over half-a-million unsuspecting users has taken a new twist with the revelation that a researcher connected to a Department of Defense-funded program to use the military to quell civil unrest also participated in the study.
Social media sites exploded over the weekend after it was revealed that Facebook, no stranger to controversy of late, secretly manipulated posts being seen by nearly 700,000 users in 2012 in order to allow researchers to study how emotional states are transmitted over the platform.
http://rt.com/usa/169848-pentagon-facebook-study-minerva/
Facebook’s ‘Social Experiment’ Triggers Public Outcry
How are you feeling? Facebook wants to know. Wait, scratch that — Facebook may already know. A just-published report about a 2012 study suddenly has the Internet buzzing with concern, once again, over Facebook policies.
This week’s debate relates to the secretive social experiment Facebook conducted on a random selection of 689,003 of its one billion-plus users. According to an article published June 17, 2014, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers from Facebook and Cornell University were testing whether certain emotions could be manipulated and would then spread among people without face-to-face contact.
http://www.toptechnews.com/article/index.php?story_id=93256
Read more at http://investmentwatchblog.com/facebook-mind-control-experiments-linked-to-dod-research-on-civil-unrest/#O8pBpJCUKDSXeFR6.99