https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/08/darpa-social-networks-research-twitter-influence-studies
a plethora of links are embedded in the article. don't be afraid to fact check for yourself.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/everyone-is-under-surveillance-now-says-whistleblower-edward-snowden
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/02/facebook-apologises-psychological-experiments-on-users
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/30/nsa-americans-metadata-year-documents
>“According to federal regulations of human experimentation, for studies that don’t affect the environment of online users, and whereas one can freely gather online data – say, from the public Twitter feed – there is no requirement of informed consent. This is the framework under which our Twitter study was carried out; moreover, all our studies on Twitter look into aggregate collective phenomena and never at the individual level.”
>A colleague, Dr Filippo Menczer, added: “In our lab we study all aspects of the diffusion of information in social media.
>“This work has broad applications as we strive to understand fundamental mechanism of social communication, such as how ideas and ‘memes’ compete for our attention, how they sometimes go viral, etc.”
DO YOU SEE????
>>79058138
>tfw we defeated a multi billion dollar program just by using memes
what a time to be alive
>>79058138
This where that missing 7 trillion from the fed reserve went? To fund these black projects?
>>79058138
Guess you weren't here for that thread fellow /pol/ack :^)
>Several of the DoD-funded projects went further than simple observation, instead engaging directly with social media users and analysing their responses.
>One of multiple studies looking into how to spread messages on the networks, titled “Who Will Retweet This? Automatically Identifying and Engaging Strangers on Twitter to Spread Information” did just this.
>The researchers explained: “Since everyone is potentially an influencer on social media and is capable of spreading information, our work aims to identify and engage the right people at the right time on social media to help propagate information when needed.”
>In the paper, which included data gathered through actively engaging 3,761 people on Twitter around the topics of public safety and bird flu, the researchers added: “Unlike existing work, which often uses only social network properties, our feature set includes personality traits that may influence one’s retweeting behaviour.”
>>79058282
guess you didn't read the subject line. this is a DAILY REMINDER
>Studies which received military funding channeled through IBM included one called "Modeling User Attitude toward Controversial Topics in Online Social Media", which analysed Twitter users’ opinions on fracking.
>Discussing the applicability of their research, the study’s authors stated: “For example, a government campaign on Twitter supporting vaccination can engage with followers who are more likely to take certain action (eg spreading a campaign message) based on their opinions.”
>“As another example, when anti-government messages are spread in social media, government would want to spread counter messages to balance that effort and hence identify people who are more likely to spread such counter messages based on their opinions.”
>>79058138
Yet another reason youre an idiot if you use twitter or facebook.
>On the other hand,
Oh, what a surprise that the us govt researches the political and im sure military applications of widely used, free, international communication systems like twitter and facebook
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>A similarly titled-project out of the University of Southern California, "The Role of Social Media in the Discussion of Controversial Topics", studied the behaviour of Twitter users posting about a 2012 vote in California on measures such as raising taxes, genetically modified organisms and the death penalty.
>“Our findings suggest Twitter is primarily used for spreading information to like-minded people rather than debating issues,” the authors wrote in their paper on the project.
>A study at Georgia Tech, "Cues to Deception in Social Media Communications", involved an in-laboratory experiment using an experimental social media platform, "FaceFriend", and 61 paid participants. While past research had investigated “written deception” in communications such as email, the study expanded this into social media, and the researchers concluded: “Breaking news stories and world events – for example, the Arab Spring – are heavily represented in social media, making them susceptible topics for influence attempts via deception.”
HOW OFTEN HAVE YOU BEEN AN UNWILLING PARTICIPANT IN A GOVERNMENT PSY-OP?
http://www.globalissues.org/article/532/media-manipulation
>>79058138
whats that supposed to be in the blue square?
>>79060707
almost looks like the anonymous logo with 99% at the bottom
