The recent survey conducted by Facebook is an example of how the media is manipulating our thought processes!
According
to Natural
News, the internet erupted in protest last week over the revelation
that Facebook ran a psychological experiment on 700,000 users designed to see
just how easily information could be used to manipulate their emotions.
"Facebook’s ill-advised – and ultimately meaningless - psychological
experiment is alarming because it suggests that the Internet, in the wrong
hands, can be a powerful weapon to subtly manipulate public opinion and promote
a political agenda," wrote David Einstein of SFgate.com.
Everyone
else chimed in with similar condemnations: The Wall Street Journal, ZDNet,
CNN, USA Today and more. Messing with the emotions of people in a
"grand social experiment" was wrong, they insisted.
Facebook
may have run a mind control experiment on 700,000 people, but the mainstream
media plays mind games on tens of millions every single day.
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When
word hit the internet that Facebook was essentially conducting this survey, an
electronic outpouring of condemnation greeted the company that Mark Zuckerberg
built. One of the study’s authors, Adam Kramer, took to his own Facebook
account to offer more of an explanation than an apology for the secret study.
“We
felt that it was important to investigate the common worry that seeing friends
post positive content leads to people feeling negative or left out,” Kramer
said. “At the same time, we were concerned that exposure to friends' negativity
might lead people to avoid visiting Facebook. We didn't clearly state our
motivations in the paper.”
The
attack on Facebook looks set to worsen, as it was discovered that one of the
authors of the platform’s mind study, Jeffrey T. Hancock of Cornell University,
also received funding from the Pentagon’s so-called Minerva Research Initiative
to conduct a similar study entitled “Modeling Discourse and Social Dynamics in
Authoritarian Regimes.”
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