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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