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Facebook admits manipulating users' emotions by modifying news feeds
The Guardian ^
| June 29, 2014
| Robert Booth
Posted on 06/29/2014 9:41:07 AM PDT by don-o
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To: EDINVA
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posted on
06/29/2014 10:26:48 AM PDT
by
Mears
To: don-o
Isn’t Facebook the entity which decided that there are 56 different genders?
Here I am so binary, thinking in terms of male and female only, and I learn that there are 56 genders. I’m so behind the times...................
To: don-o
May the Zuck be with you.
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posted on
06/29/2014 10:38:16 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
06/29/2014 10:57:23 AM PDT
by
Lets Roll NOW
(A baby isn't a punishment, Obama is)
To: don-o
I don't publicize my life on FB so will someone explain this? What's the newsfeed? Does FB list headlines on your page or what is being manipulated? Or are they manipulating your posts or your friends’ replies?
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:05:41 AM PDT
by
bgill
To: Mears
I think most active Facebook folks are early teens and middle aged to older. The later h.s./college/early career crowd is more into twitter. I have FB to see pix of family who’re geographically far flung. I rarely post, and NEVER anything political. Just pablum.
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:33:05 AM PDT
by
EDINVA
To: don-o
...had the ability to make users feel either more positively or more negatively about things without them knowing it.
***
Just doing more work for the Soros administration.
(I guess it has just become ridiculous to expect journalists to have knowledge of the rules of grammar, but “without them knowing it” should be “without their knowing it”.)
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posted on
06/29/2014 11:51:04 AM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(31 May 2014: Obamugabe officially declares the USA a vanquished subject of the Global Caliphate.)
To: don-o
Bookface? What is this Bookface? Seems I may have heard of it before.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:24:09 PM PDT
by
Milton Miteybad
(I am Jim Thompson. {Really.})
To: don-o
Everything on the internet is getting to be manipulation. Am I the only one who's extremely bothered by advertising which uses my online searches to decide what merchandise to entice me with? What's to stop other sources from tailoring news and other search choices to my preferences and manipulating me? Amazon has gotten so cluttered with merchandise tailored to me that it takes forever to download.
I have no clue why people still use Facebook and other sites that share personal information online.
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posted on
06/29/2014 12:31:40 PM PDT
by
grania
To: Milton Miteybad
I think Book face is the posters you see on the walls in the post office.
To: don-o
Reason number 316 why everyone, especially conservatives, should stay away from Facebook.
Facebook is evil.
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posted on
06/30/2014 5:40:15 AM PDT
by
upchuck
(Everyday, Joe Wilson becomes more correct!)
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