Everytime I think...

[GWguy]

... I might be tempted to open a Facebook account, something like this reminds me why I don't.

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-mood-experiment/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Internet users have reacted angrily to news that Facebook researchers manipulated the content some users were shown in an attempt to gauge their emotional response.

For one week in early 2012, Facebook (FB, Tech30) changed the content mix in the News Feeds of almost 690,000 users. Some people were shown a higher number of positive posts, while others were shown more negative posts.

 

[LibertyBeacon]

They are probably tweaking a system with which the populace can be socially engineered to stoke flames in countries where the U.S. needs a "revolution" to prop up another puppet dictator. Domestically, they will need to pacify the masses when the plebes get a bit too uppity.

Their Data Science department is stocked with tons of PhDs.