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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.<ref>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/</ref> | 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.<ref>http://www.wired.com/2014/08/i-liked-everything-i-saw-on-facebook-for-two-days-heres-what-it-did-to-me/</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 04:49, 2 November 2015
| 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 |
Control
The first board member was Peter Thiel.[1]
Developments
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.[1] Mark Zuckerberg has been consistent in his explanation of the plan to shareholders, a plan to be the middle-man in all personal communication.[2]
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".[3]
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."[4]
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%.[5]
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.[6]
Mass surveillance
Facebook admits to using the microphone to listen to users' environments, but has claimed that it does not record conversations.
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'.[7]
Facebook on Wikispooks
References
- ↑ a b http://www.digitaltrends.com/social-media/facebook-snitch-on-friends-that-arent-using-real-names/
- ↑ 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
