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How are there STILL people that don't know about this? It should have bankrupted the company but it didn't. How many people here didn't know that in the early days one of the primary funders of facebook was the CIA?

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>Joe Rogan was left stunned after discovering that Facebook conducted a secret experiment on thousands of people which allegedly drove some to attempt suicide. Rebecca Lemov, a historian of science and expert on mind control at Harvard University, revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the social media giant quietly altered the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users in 2012. These changes either made the news feeds more positive or more negative, allowing Facebook to manipulate the emotions of their users to study the fallout in their behavior.

How are there STILL people that don't know about this? It should have bankrupted the company but it didn't. How many people here didn't know that in the early days one of the primary funders of facebook was the CIA? Archive: https://archive.today/uS1HF From the post: >>Joe Rogan was left stunned after discovering that Facebook conducted a secret experiment on thousands of people which allegedly drove some to attempt suicide. Rebecca Lemov, a historian of science and expert on mind control at Harvard University, revealed on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast that the social media giant quietly altered the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users in 2012. These changes either made the news feeds more positive or more negative, allowing Facebook to manipulate the emotions of their users to study the fallout in their behavior.

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I am more surprised that someone could have their mental state damaged by garbage they see on Fecalbook, than the fact that they tried to do it. The manipulation I expect; a successful result, shocking.

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It is shockingly easy to convince people of almost anything. Most people lack even the most basic level of critical thinking.

This is why I say "internet bullying does not exist". You know what you can do? You can go to a different website, you can block people, you can I don't know? Turn off the fucking phone/tablet/computer and GO OUTSIDE.

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Sage wisdom: you have to let yourself be bullied.

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I was bullied a lot when I was a kid.

Then I beat the shit out of my bully. Never bullied again.

Not saying you should do what I did but they were already trying to beat the shit out of me. I did not start the fight but I sure as fuck ended it.