Facebook censorship

[Esaias]

http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/1...-matter-trend/

"Former Facebook workers have come out with shocking revelations that the social media giant is actively censoring conservative news topics and reports, while also falsifying its list of ‘trending’ topics.
The source says that workers routinely prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, despite the fact that they were organically trending on the site.
The workers were known as ‘news curators’, and even actively ‘injected’ news stories and reports into the trending list even when they were not organically popular enough to be included."

[Esaias]

Congress is involved: http://www.commerce.senate.gov/publi...5-B8D91FF690B4

[Esaias]

Facebook secret experimentation on hundreds of thousands of users: http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorym.../#1d9c27f514f4

"In a controversial study Facebook reported the results of a massive psychological experiment on 689,003 users. The authors were able to conduct the research because in their words, automated testing “was consistent with Facebook’s Data Use Policy, to which all users agree prior to creating an account on Facebook, constituting informed consent for this research.”

Most of us who covered the story relied on that statement from the academic journal for evidence of Facebook’s efforts to gain informed consent. Well, it turns out that was wrong."

[Esaias]

http://wallstreetonparade.com/2014/0...its-cia-roots/

"But wait. It gets worse.

Facebook’s secret human lab rat study on a self-described “massive” 689,003 of its users was published just last month in the Proceedings of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences under the title: “Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks.” The study said the significant finding was that “emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness. We provide experimental evidence that emotional contagion occurs without direct interaction between people (exposure to a friend expressing an emotion is sufficient), and in the complete absence of nonverbal cues.”

[Esaias]

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-and-the-cia/

"In the process, Hodgkinson accuses Facebook's backer and in particular Peter Thiel of using the concepts enshrined in Facebook's technology for what he sees as dark purposes:

...by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls "nature", and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.
Hodgkinson goes much further. Digging deep into the background of board member Jim Breyer asserting that his connections bring Facebook uncomfortably close to the CIA:

Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA."

[thephnxman]

Originally Posted by Esaias

http://www.zdnet.com/article/facebook-and-the-cia/

"In the process, Hodgkinson accuses Facebook's backer and in particular Peter Thiel of using the concepts enshrined in Facebook's technology for what he sees as dark purposes:

...by his own admission, Thiel is trying to destroy the real world, which he also calls "nature", and install a virtual world in its place, and it is in this context that we must view the rise of Facebook. Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation, and Thiel is a bright young thing in the neoconservative pantheon, with a penchant for far-out techno-utopian fantasies. Not someone I want to help get any richer.
Hodgkinson goes much further. Digging deep into the background of board member Jim Breyer asserting that his connections bring Facebook uncomfortably close to the CIA:

Facebook's most recent round of funding was led by a company called Greylock Venture Capital, who put in the sum of $27.5m. One of Greylock's senior partners is called Howard Cox, another former chairman of the NVCA, who is also on the board of In-Q-Tel. What's In-Q-Tel? Well, believe it or not (and check out their website), this is the venture-capital wing of the CIA."

Thank you, from a conspiracy theorist.

[shazeep]

it is unclear whether you are thanking him as a fellow theorist, or discounting his posts by calling him one? Interesting how FB is being used, huh?

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by Esaias

http://21stcenturywire.com/2016/05/1...-matter-trend/

"Former Facebook workers have come out with shocking revelations that the social media giant is actively censoring conservative news topics and reports, while also falsifying its list of ‘trending’ topics.
The source says that workers routinely prevented stories about the right-wing CPAC gathering, Mitt Romney, Rand Paul, and other conservative topics from appearing in the highly-influential section, despite the fact that they were organically trending on the site.
The workers were known as ‘news curators’, and even actively ‘injected’ news stories and reports into the trending list even when they were not organically popular enough to be included."

Come on everyone knows the owner of FakeBook is a socialist.

Of course he is going to slant his child in the way he wants.

[FlamingZword]

Originally Posted by shazeep

it is unclear whether you are thanking him as a fellow theorist, or discounting his posts by calling him one? Interesting how FB is being used, huh?

Fakebook is right up your alley.

[votivesoul]

The owner of any website is in legal control of all its content, so while unscrupulous at best, it's not like a crime was committed, right? Why can't the owner of software manipulate as he or she pleases, to make certain certain articles trend and others don't?

Again, it may seem unethical, but not illegal.