Decided to do psychological experiments on the users is something that i think a lot of people need to really fully understand and they were doing it based upon the fact that Different Things that people posted they want to see how other people would react to it. On how to watch what your facebook friends posts can have a direct effect on your mood new Research Shows the more negative posts you see the more negative you could become. So if for example lets say somebody wanted to post something that was on the news feed that was a very negative story they wanted to see how their users would react via their likes by their statements for their posts and they would show people who already had a predilection to maybe having some depression or maybe having some other issues in their lives and they can figure that out based upon your like space upon your connections based upon where youre going and so what they want to do is take that information and then use it to basically weaponize. This i
And we dont know what facebooks aims are in fact facebook doesnt know what its aims are because its going to be the sum total of all the people who are working on these algorithms a whistleblower someone who used to work for facebook came forward last year and said i was one of the news curators at facebook a bunch of us used to sit around every day and we used to remove stories from the news feed that were too conservative and now and then we inject a story that we thought was really cool. The facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says hes committed to giving everyone a voice news from responding to an allegation that facebook edits conservative views out of its trending topics they can suppress certain types of results based on what they think you should be seeing based on what your followers are presenting now a new report claims that according to a former facebook employee the social media mega company sometimes ignores what is actually trending among its 1000000000 users if this story
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