Tag: social media
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#MorningMonarchy: September 17, 2019
Structural integrity, alien documentaries and the latest in corporate fast food mascot dating apps + this day in history w/the release of ‘Use Your Illusion’ and our song of the day by Stereolab on your Morning Monarchy for September 17, 2019.
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#MorningMonarchy: October 3, 2018
Blank Whoppers, unsavory truths and gender wildfires + this day in history w/the Bush/Obama bankster bailout bill and our song of the day by Edie Brickell & New Bohemians on your Morning Monarchy for October 3, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: September 4, 2018
Historical revisionism, rigged results and ‘First Man’ + this day in history w/the Golden Dragon massacre and our song of the day by Twenty One Pilots on your Morning Monarchy for September 4, 2018.
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#MorningMonarchy: May 8, 2018
Laser eyes, license scans and hacking fridges + this day in history w/Tom Waits’ lawsuits and our song of the day by TWRP on your Morning Monarchy for May 8, 2018.
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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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US Military Studied How To Influence Twitter Users In DARPA-Funded Research
from blacklistednews.com: 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…
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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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Facebook Manipulated Users’ Emotions As Part Of Psychological Experiment – Study
from RT.com: Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users by manipulating their emotions without their knowledge, a new study reveals. Researchers toyed with the feelings of 689,003 randomly selected English-speaking Facebook users by changing the contents of their news feed, according to a paper published in the June edition of the journal ‘Proceedings of…
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L.A. schools to monitor students’ social media postings
Vladimir Kremlev for RT from RT.com: Authorities in California are now snooping on school students’ social media postings to catch law-breaking, bullying and other harmful activities. But parents worry the move is yet another example of Big Brother prying into ordinary Americans’ lives. Glendale Unified School District, the third-largest in Los Angeles County, has paid…
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Social networks ‘driving up violent extremism’
from sbs.com.au: Social networks – not radical ideology – are the major driver in the creating violent extremists, according to the findings of a four year study. More than 100 current and former extremists participated in the study, which found that social networks and online forums were enabling people to get in touch with “radical”…
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Look Who’s Monitoring Social Media Now
from nextgov.com: In case there was any doubt who’s monitoring what we post to social media sites, count the Secret Service in the mix. The agency posted a solicitation Monday seeking software to monitor social media sites for “real-time open source intelligence.” The full description of what the Secret Service is after is only available…
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Meet PRISM’s little brother: #SOCMINT
A secretive unit is developing tools for blanket surveillance of social media. from wired.com: For the past two years, a tight-lipped and little talked about unit within the Metropolitan Police has been conducting blanket surveillance of British citizens’ public social media conversations. Following an unintentional leak and a detailed investigation, we are finally able to see…
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Police Embrace Emerging Social Media Tool Nixle
from newsday.com: Across the country, law officers are adding a new form of social media to their arsenal of crime fighting tools. Almost 6,000 law enforcement agencies are now deploying the public notification service Nixle to provide residents with real-time alerts on crimes in progress, traffic messes and missing children. Previously, the service has helped…
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‘To Catch a Thief’ Using Social Media
Can social media catch a thief? Eric Lamb, a Sandy, Utah resident, left his backpack behind in a Midvale McDonalds on Sunday Night – but when he returned to retrieve it, the backpack was already gone. An article at CW30.com reports that Lamb just “…wanted to get some studying done while watching the girls play,…