Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Report: Children Not Filtered Out of Facebook Mind Experiment



Report: Children Not Filtered Out of Facebook Mind Experiment
by John Nolte 1 Jul 2014
Like something straight out of a 1970's Hollywood paranoia thriller, without telling them they were being experimented on, Facebook conducted an emotion-altering experiment on nearly 700,000 of its users. Some of them might have been children.

The experiment, which was conducted by Facebook data scientist Adam Kramer, occurred over the course of a week in January of 2012. The only reason we know about it is Kramer and his two co-researchers published their results.

Facebook turned 700,000 human beings into unwilling lab rats by manipulating their news feeds. Some received only good or happy news. The others saw only bad and depressing news. The result was that those subjected to good news published more positive posts; those subjected to bad news published more negative posts.

What Facebook did wrong is obvious. First off, you don't experiment on people without telling them. It's highly unethical to make someone a guinea pig against their will or without them knowing. It's fine to document normal behavior. Once you manipulate the environment, though, you are crossing a big fat ethical line.

Secondly, you don't cast a wide net for unsuspecting guinea pigs because it is important to screen out those not psychologically prepared for your experiment. No scientist with any kind of conscience would subject a clinically depressed individual to an environment where he or she sees only bad news. The results could be fatal.

Facebook didn't think or didn’t care about the reasonable possibility that, out of thousands the company manipulated into seeing only bad news, one or more might not be prepared to psychologically handle such a thing.

Forbes is reporting that Facebook might not have screened out minors. Though it would have been quite easy to do so, the company did not filter out 13-18 year-olds. The effect this kind of emotional manipulation would have on teenagers already made emotionally brittle by puberty is as hard to fathom as the soulless corporation that would do such a thing.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg has made no secret of the fact that his ambitions rise well above creating a worldwide social network. The powerful multi-billionaire has a number of pet social and political causes. His willingness to experiment on people mixed with a political agenda makes one wonder what else we don't know about.

In 1974, the FCC made subliminal advertising illegal based on a faulty study that claimed photographs hidden in a movie would boost theatre concession sales.

Manipulating the emotional health of 700,000 unsuspecting people is far, far worse.

Currently, worldwide, 1-in-9 people have a Facebook account.

Facebook
PRISM reportedly collects data from Facebook, and is a data-mining program for the National Security Agency (NSA).

Note: Max Kelly is an employee at the National Security Agency (NSA), and was the chief security officer for Facebook.
Marne L. Levine is the VP for Facebook, and a trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank).
Sheryl K. Sandberg is the COO & director for Facebook, and was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Foundation to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Urban Institute (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the International Rescue Committee.
George Soros was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Vernon E. Jordan Jr. is a life trustee at the Urban Institute (think tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Valerie B. Jarrett is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior adviser for the Barack Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F. Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation was a funder for the Urban Institute (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), and the International Rescue Committee.
William H. Gates III is a co-chair for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a co-founder & technology adviser & director for the Microsoft Corporation.
Microsoft Corporation is an investor in Facebook.
PRISM reportedly collects data from the Microsoft Corporation, Facebook, and is a data-mining program for the National Security Agency (NSA).
National Security Agency (NSA) was a grant recipient from the Microsoft Corporation.
Dina Dublon is a director at the Microsoft Corporation, and an overseer at the International Rescue Committee.
Helmut Panke is a director at the Microsoft Corporation, and a supervisory board member for Bayer AG.
Bayer AG
The Bayer company then became part of IG Farben, a German chemical company conglomerate. During World War II, the IG Farben used slave labor in factories attached to large slave labor camps, notably the sub-camps of the Mauthausen-Gusen concentration camp.[3] IG Farben owned 42.5% of the company that manufactured Zyklon B,[4] a chemical used in the gas chambers of Auschwitz and other extermination camps. After World War II, the Allies broke up IG Farben and Bayer reappeared as an individual business. The Bayer executive Fritz ter Meer, sentenced to seven years in prison during the IG Farben Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, was made head of the supervisory board of Bayer in 1956, after his release.
Klaus Kleinfeld is a director at Bayer AG, a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).
Sheryl K. Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and is the COO & director for Facebook.














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