This seems to be about using Facebook in foreign countries to affect the outcomes of events, but as we saw with the NSA, a government who sees its citizens as potential enemies can quickly repurpose this sort of capability.
Part of the birthing process of a police state... notice they’re looking at American citizens... Does that mean free citizens are the enemy? Homeland and Defense would say, ‘no’... but their actions tell a different story.
“..but as we saw with the NSA, a government who sees its citizens as potential enemies can quickly repurpose this sort of capability.”
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History repeating itself. Oppressive governments always operate in a cloud of paranoia.
Why does the page say, “Page Not Found”?
Interesting.
Inject untruths and vicious rumours
Into the heads of social network frequenters.
Brilliant!!
No nasty residue like LSD..
Wow.
Arab Spring was simply version 1.0 of civil unrest via social media...they just know that US and EU are much more sophisticated users of social media and they will have to be a bit more subtle.
How belief spreads. It changes every time the page is refreshed.
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Facebook will use the data and techniques in every upcoming election, too. This ain’t just “social unrest dynamics”, remember Obama’s Office of Nudge?