Tag: facebook
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#MorningMonarchy: March 1, 2016
Crashing robots, snatching websites and virtual whistleblowing + this day in history w/the Weathermen bomb and our song of the day by the James Hunter Six on your Morning Monarchy for March 1, 2016.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Fake Campaign Supporters Exposed As Paid Actors (Video)
Flint residents were paying higher-than-average prices to be poisoned; Kerry the Fixer has a brand new “Plan B” for Syria; and, once again, the powers-that-shouldn’t-be are caught buying support.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Flint Water, Syria Partition, Fake Activists (Audio)
Flint residents were paying higher-than-average prices to be poisoned; Kerry the Fixer has a brand new “Plan B” for Syria; and, once again, the powers-that-shouldn’t-be are caught buying support.
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#MorningMonarchy: February 23, 2016
Space music, dumb phones and the ‘Mobile World’ order + this day in history w/Gitmo and our song of the day by Mavis Staples on your Morning Monarchy for February 23, 2016.
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Facebook boosted US election turnout via psychology experiment, company reveals
from RT.com: Facebook manipulated the news feeds of almost 2 million American users during the 2012 presidential election without telling them. The manipulation led to a 3 percent increase in voter turnout, according to the company’s own data scientist. In a stunning revelation, the three months prior to Election Day in 2012 saw Facebook “tweak”…
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GCHQ’s Dark Arts: Leaked Documents Reveal Online Manipulation and Facebook, YouTube Snooping
from zdnet.com: GCHQ has developed a toolkit of software programs used to manipulate online traffic, infiltrate users’ computers and spread select messages across social media sites including Facebook and YouTube. The UK spy agency’s dark arts were revealed in documents first published by The Intercept, and each piece of software is described in a wiki…
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#Facebook’s Psychological Experiments Connected to Department of Defense Research on Civil Unrest
from scgnews.com: It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook’s recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas. There has been quite a bit of chatter this past week after it was revealed that a recent Facebook outage was the result of a…
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Video: Delete Your #FaceBook
A real issue is people who are oblivious to what they are giving up. Not everyone is informed and educated, this video aims to start a conversation so that users can educate themselves and then make informed decisions. Remember how many kids use these services, many of which don’t even know what TOS stands for.…
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Facebook can now officially eavesdrop on you
from androidpit.com: The Facebook app was recently updated in the USA, adding a feature which turns on the device microphone in order to record background sound to know what is happening around you. Facebook sees this feature as a win for users, since status updates can be posted even quicker. On the other hand, skeptics…
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Google & Facebook Used Lobbying Groups to Oppose Internet Surveillance Restrictions
from vice.com: Revelations about the National Security Agency’s most controversial surveillance program, which centers on the bulk collection of hundreds of billions of records of Americans’ phone conversations, were quickly greeted with calls for reform by major internet powerhouses like Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo last year. But all four companies, along with dozens of…
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Facebook to Acquire Oculus VR for $2 Billion
from IGN.com: Facebook has announced that it will acquire Oculus VR, makers of the Oculus Rift for $2 billion. Announced today, the social networking giant will acquire the Oculus VR for $400 million in cash and 23.1 million in Facebook shares. “While the applications for virtual reality technology beyond gaming are in their nascent stages,…
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Must Watch Video: The Threats of Facebook and Data Mining Explained
from youtube.com: Eben Moglen talks about freedom of thought, data mining, facebook, google, Steve Jobs’ death, and what we can do about it.
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Facebook Offers Users More Online Gender Identities
from seattletimes.com: Facebook said the changes initially will cover the company’s 159 million monthly users in the U.S. and are aimed at giving people more choices in how they describe themselves, such as androgynous, bi-gender, intersex, gender fluid or transsexual.
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg One of Youngest Billionaires in World
from forbes.com: In her book Lean In, Sheryl Sandberg detailed her negotiations with Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg as she was being scouted for the position of chief operating officer. Poised to become the social network’s number two, the Harvard MBA noted that she was “dying” to accept the job but was “afraid of doing anything…