CHECK THIS OUT LOLOL “it was invented in 2007” and then he skips to 2013 HMMMM I wonder what happened in 2008 and 2012 and why he skipped those years?
II. CAMBRIDGE ANALYTICA
Over the past few weeks, we’ve been working to understand exactly what happened with Cambridge Analytica and taking steps to make sure this doesn’t happen again. We took important actions to prevent this from happening again today four years ago, but we also made mistakes, there’s more to do, and we need to step up and do it.
A. What Happened
In 2007, we launched the Facebook Platform with the vision that more apps should be social. Your calendar should be able to show your friends’ birthdays, your maps should show where your friends live, and your address book should show their pictures. To do this, we enabled people to log into apps and share who their friends were and some information about them.
In 2013, a Cambridge University researcher named Aleksandr Kogan created a personality quiz app. It was installed by around 300,000 people who agreed to share some of their Facebook information as well as some information from their friends whose privacy settings allowed it. Given the way our platform worked at the time this meant Kogan was able to access some information about tens of millions of their friends.
Reads like a creepy spy novel. They knew and have known EXACTLY what they were doing to extract people’s personal info....and that of their family/friends, etc.
Facebook And The Ethics Of User Manipulation (2014)
A recent study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. The study set out to discover if the emotional tone of a users’ News Feed content had an impact on their own emotional makeup, measured through the tone of what they posted to the social service after viewing the skewed material.
Nearly 700,000 Facebook users were shown either more positive, or more negative content. The study found that users who were given more positive news feeds posted more positive things, and users who were given more negative news feeds posted more negative things.
Surprising? Doubtful. Unethical? Yes.
Zuckerberg is missing the most important point of all... that Facebook sucked up all that data so it COULD be acquired by Cambridge Analytica, with or without Facebook’s permission. . . when Facebook did not have its users’ permission to log and cache all their data in the first place, much less share it for profit!
Nor is he addressing the arbitrary and capricious censorship of Facebook users which provides no appeal process except to the vey same faceless censors who made the original decision without giving any specific reasons or examples and which is obviously targeting legal conservative speech. In many instances, destroying businesses people have built.
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