• Guardian, Wednesday, July 9, 2014 11:51 AM

Facebook is the only social network to be used as a petri dish for secret social experiments. “The activities of users of Twitter and other social media services were recorded and analysed [sic] as part of a major project funded by the US military,” The Guardian reports. “Research funded directly or indirectly by the US Department of Defense’s military research department, known as Darpa, has involved users of some of the internet’s largest destinations, including Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest and Kickstarter, for studies of social connections and how messages spread.”

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