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This is the blogosphere digging a bit deeper.. This is the best summary paragraph I can find in this piece that traces through the initial posting of Military Funding for the Facebook study, that was then denied by the Researcher, but the public record undoes the denial.

This seems to be about using Facebook in foreign countries to affect the outcomes of events, but as we saw with the NSA, a government who sees its citizens as potential enemies can quickly repurpose this sort of capability.

1 posted on 07/06/2014 11:59:49 AM PDT by dalight
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Part of the birthing process of a police state... notice they’re looking at American citizens... Does that mean free citizens are the enemy? Homeland and Defense would say, ‘no’... but their actions tell a different story.


2 posted on 07/06/2014 12:10:12 PM PDT by GOPJ (Why no outrage over IRS targeting? Same reason Pravda didn't make a stink about gulags.FREnterprise)
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“..but as we saw with the NSA, a government who sees its citizens as potential enemies can quickly repurpose this sort of capability.”

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History repeating itself. Oppressive governments always operate in a cloud of paranoia.


3 posted on 07/06/2014 12:10:31 PM PDT by EagleUSA
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Why does the page say, “Page Not Found”?


4 posted on 07/06/2014 12:11:22 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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To: yorkiemom; null and void; laplata; Gluteus Maximus; Salvavida; Foundahardheadedwoman; baddog 219; ..
CWII Spark — “This seems to be about using Facebook in foreign countries to affect the outcomes of events, but as we saw with the NSA, a government who sees its citizens as potential enemies can quickly repurpose this sort of capability.
6 posted on 07/06/2014 12:21:47 PM PDT by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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Interesting.

Inject untruths and vicious rumours

Into the heads of social network frequenters.

Brilliant!!

No nasty residue like LSD..

Wow.


7 posted on 07/06/2014 12:25:03 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
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Arab Spring was simply version 1.0 of civil unrest via social media...they just know that US and EU are much more sophisticated users of social media and they will have to be a bit more subtle.


10 posted on 07/06/2014 12:34:35 PM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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How belief spreads. It changes every time the page is refreshed.
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11 posted on 07/06/2014 12:42:27 PM PDT by Excellence (Marine mom since April 11, 2014)
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12 posted on 07/06/2014 12:48:06 PM PDT by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping!

To get onto The Nut-job Conspiracy Theory Ping List you must threaten to report me to the Mods if I don't add you to the list...

13 posted on 07/06/2014 12:50:27 PM PDT by null and void (If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
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Facebook will use the data and techniques in every upcoming election, too. This ain’t just “social unrest dynamics”, remember Obama’s Office of Nudge?


14 posted on 07/06/2014 2:46:39 PM PDT by DBrow
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