Dear nettime, Just before news broke out about this study, I had been deliberately using Facebook a lot, after months of non-use, to see what a few hours a day was like, keeping tabs on people and myself this way. After circulating a considerably number of pictures with friends and ranting on "clicking" away on various causes, and signing on to some "issue oriented" feeds through Facebook such as "Truth Out" - I found myself engaged in seeking information to insert into various dialogues which I was having with my friends...about politics of media, Isla Vista shooting, etc. At a certain point I realized that all the posting coming to me from the FB news feeds were deliberately trying to foment conflict and there were even photos alledgedly real which seemed deliberately provocative. I thought they were generating content, as they generate ads, based on my "taste" in discussion topics. So maybe I was part of the mind control.
Molly molly hankwitz On Tue, Jul 8, 2014 at 10:53 PM, nettime's avid reader <[email protected]> wrote: > Facebook's Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense > Research on Civil Unrest <...> # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: [email protected]
