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DARPA is behind behavioral manipulation with Facebook, Twitter, Reditt, Digg.

CalmOceansCalmOceans Member UncommonPosts: 2,437
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies

 

US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research

 

The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed as part of a major project funded by the US military, in a program that covers ground similar to Facebook’s controversial experiment into how to control emotions by manipulating news feeds.

Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread.

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  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    The internet is a DARPA research project.
  • CalmOceansCalmOceans Member UncommonPosts: 2,437
    Interesting you say that, I already forgot that DARPA was partly behind the creation of the internt to begin wtih.
  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414
    The military tends to use test platforms for years after they were developed in other applications, like many experimental planes were then used decades later as research vehicles for NASA. It does not surprised me DARPA is still using the internet for testing purposes.
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