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Revision as of 14:10, 21 May 2016
| The world's most popular social network, with over 1,000,000,000 users in 2014. |
https://Facebook.com 
Started: February 4, 2004
Founders: Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, Chris Hughes
Subgroups: Instagram, WhatsApp, Oculus VR, PrivateCore
Staff: 10082
Contents
Sub-Pages
| Page Name | Size | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Facebook/Censorship | 7,102 | Facebook has censored its users' free speech for years. After being quasi-covert, this became explicit in 2020 as part of the COVID-19/Censorship. |
| Facebook/Oversight board | 1,240 | The group charged with deciding what could be said on Facebook, and what should be removed |
As the world's most used social website, Facebook has a great - and often poorly understood - ability to influence its users.[1]
Control
The first board member was Bilderberg/Steering committee member, Peter Thiel.[2]
Mass surveillance
With over 1,000,000,000 active users, Facebook is recording a lot of data about a lot of people. Together with other social media, in 2016, Facebook "accounted for 43 percent of all traffic to major news sites. Nearly two-thirds of Facebook and Twitter users access their news through their feeds."[3]
Content moderation
A 2015 estimate put 1/3 of Facebook's entire staff as moderators, but Facebook claimed this was an overestimate - although without offering an alternative figure.[4]
Tracking of Users
Facebook admits to using the microphone to listen to users' environments, but has claimed that it does not record conversations.
Since 2012, Facebook has been "better understanding of our ecosystem" by encouraging users to report if their friends use the network under an assumed name.[2] Mark Zuckerberg has been consistent in his explanation of the plan to shareholders, a plan to be the middle-man in all personal communication.[5]
Tracking of Non-users
In April 2015, after research bu Belgian privacy regulators, Facebook admitted that it was placing a cookie on "some" people's browsers, even if they were not Facebook users and had never visited the site. It claimed that this was due to a "bug".[6]
Research
Emotional Contagion
Multiple experimenters have used data from Facebook to study 'emotional contagion', how mood is transferred between friends. It was announced in 2014 that some research was not merely observational, but involved investigations in manipulating users' moods through the skewing of data presented through Facebook. For 7 days, 689,003 users were presented with modified newsfeeds which included more or less "happy" or "sad" phrases from friends. The study concluded "that emotional states can be transferred to others via emotional contagion, leading people to experience the same emotions without their awareness."[7]
Face recognition
Facebook announced in 2014 that it has developed a program called "DeepFace," which can determine whether two photographed faces are of the same person with 97.25% accuracy - compared with a human ability of discriminating faces at about 97.5%.[8]
Experiments by users
In 2014, Matt Honan, a Wired journalist for Wired magazine notes the effects of an experiment he tried out - "liking" everything which Facebook served up to him for 48 hours.[9]
Censorship
In 2015, the EFF reported that in the South Carolina prison system, accessing Facebook is an offense on par with murder, rape, rioting, escape and hostage-taking, with at least one inmate receiving more than 37 years in isolation for the 'offence'.[10]
Facebook on Wikispooks
References
- ↑ https://medium.com/@tristanharris/how-technology-hijacks-peoples-minds-from-a-magician-and-google-s-design-ethicist-56d62ef5edf3#.b4f6nhqo2
- ↑ a b http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-snitch-on-friends-that-arent-using-real-names/
- ↑ http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
- ↑ http://www.theverge.com/2016/4/13/11387934/internet-moderator-history-youtube-facebook-reddit-censorship-free-speech
- ↑ http://saintsal.com/facebook/
- ↑ http://thehill.com/policy/technology/238399-facebook-claims-a-bug-made-it-track-people-not-on-facebook
- ↑ http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/
- ↑ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/18/facebook-deepface-facial-recognition_n_4985925.html
- ↑ http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/
- ↑ https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2015/02/hundreds-south-carolina-inmates-sent-solitary-confinement-over-facebook
