FACEBOOK Actively Jacking w/My Group Page: Bank and Politician Financial Corruption Page

[GoodETxSG]

Hello and Happy Holidays to All!

I know some of you are familiar with some of my Threads and my background (If not click on my Profile Name, then on "All Threads"). I worked in Military Intelligence as well as for the Federal Reserve Bank as well as a few other American and one EU Bank... as well as one of the largest Pharmaceutical Corporations in the Country (One that also provides 1/3 of the Flu vaccinations each year). I worked as an IT Security Professional and doing so spent a lot of time with the top brass of each of the entities on down to the engineers and physical security folks. I grew up in a military family (Navy) and... well witnessed quite a bit.

I decided to start posting information from various alternative news sites and my own sources on one of their own inventions/tools... FACEBOOK! I created a page " Bank and Politician Financial Corruption". I started posting like crazy and was getting a LOT of traffic. Then a LOT of "LIKES". It was noticed and then the traffic dropped from over 1,500+ hits per day to 30... Every time the "Likes" approaches 500 the number magically drops POOF to 464 over night.

I have received a bunch of emails from people that view making remarks and I have noted on the site that FB is obviously removing "Likes" and monitoring the site to make sure to keep the traffic down. I know if you are going to poke the Giant in the eye it is going to take a look at you and take measures... No illusions there (AND I am doing it ON one of their own major tools!!!)...

This is information that I am sure most of you come across on your daily alternative news troll... I am also certain MANY of you have been smart enough to CLOSE your Facebook accounts long ago (Especially after the Snowden/NSA Scandal Broke). I am curious if any of you that do have an account would like to do an experiment with me. Go to my FB Group link and click the "LIKE" button and get the number over 500 for a few days to see if "THEY" yank the number back down. Then either leave the "Like" or remove it on lets set a date of Dec 7th. (I have this experiment in mind for a couple of reasons, I want to submit an article about FB for review to Veterans Today for the first time, then another site if not accepted etc)...

If you are comfortable with that lets give it a try... If not I understand for obvious reasons.

Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/BankAndPoliticianFinancialCorruption ;)

[spiritguide]

Will do. Notify me here with pm if you need other actions.

Peace!

Did as you asked, it accepted my like but the counter did not advance. :mod:

[Lifebringer]

use FB for taking things viral only. Don't socialize too often and tweet the links or post comments w/them in it. Waking people up, means constantly resetting the snooze switch in America.

[LivioRazlo]

Liked your page. Let me know through here or PM if there is anything else I can do for you.

[sunflower]

Hi Corey, well I tried and clicked on Like. The number remained at 464; there was no change.

I did not stay on your page to read what you have there since I do read your threads on Avalon.
My dog is on Facebook. My daughter and I fashioned her profile and included photos of her and another dog playing at the dog park. I very rarely use facebook except for reasons such as yours :p

[4evrneo]

I "liked" your page and the number didnt change. I think you are right about them removing and altering your traffic stats.

[GoodETxSG]

GREAT INFO... The feedback is very helpful and appreciated!

[risveglio]

Hello and Happy Holidays to All!

I know some of you are familiar with some of my Threads and my background (If not click on my Profile Name, then on "All Threads"). I worked in Military Intelligence as well as for the Federal Reserve Bank as well as a few other American and one EU Bank... as well as one of the largest Pharmaceutical Corporations in the Country (One that also provides 1/3 of the Flu vaccinations each year). I worked as an IT Security Professional and doing so spent a lot of time with the top brass of each of the entities on down to the engineers and physical security folks. I grew up in a military family (Navy) and... well witnessed quite a bit.

I decided to start posting information from various alternative news sites and my own sources on one of their own inventions/tools... FACEBOOK! I created a page " Bank and Politician Financial Corruption". I started posting like crazy and was getting a LOT of traffic. Then a LOT of "LIKES". It was noticed and then the traffic dropped from over 1,500+ hits per day to 30... Every time the "Likes" approaches 500 the number magically drops POOF to 464 over night.

I have received a bunch of emails from people that view making remarks and I have noted on the site that FB is obviously removing "Likes" and monitoring the site to make sure to keep the traffic down. I know if you are going to poke the Giant in the eye it is going to take a look at you and take measures... No illusions there (AND I am doing it ON one of their own major tools!!!)...

This is information that I am sure most of you come across on your daily alternative news troll... I am also certain MANY of you have been smart enough to CLOSE your Facebook accounts long ago (Especially after the Snowden/NSA Scandal Broke). I am curious if any of you that do have an account would like to do an experiment with me. Go to my FB Group link and click the "LIKE" button and get the number over 500 for a few days to see if "THEY" yank the number back down. Then either leave the "Like" or remove it on lets set a date of Dec 7th. (I have this experiment in mind for a couple of reasons, I want to submit an article about FB for review to Veterans Today for the first time, then another site if not accepted etc)...

If you are comfortable with that lets give it a try... If not I understand for obvious reasons.

Here is the link: http://www.facebook.com/BankAndPoliticianFinancialCorruption ;)

Goode, is the number always around losing than 500 to 464? Losing 40 - 50 likes is not that bad. I often clean up my page by removing likes. I will also remove a like if the page makes a really large claim but the page itself is questionable. I don't want to start a war with people I love just because they have not reached a level of awareness that I believe as my truth, what if I am wrong? Facebook, for most on my list is just a place to share information with friends and family. Its here on Avalon where I would post something more controversial because I think the debate is worth having and most posts are public. The public that are searching for answers are hopefully not looking for them on Facebook alone.

Ok, I went to your page and it is small and the likes are fluctuating but only between 458 to 464. I took a look, I have even shared some of those links myself here. Maybe the flucuations are because the page does not lean in either direction.

For example, you bring someone in because you complain about corporations but then you blame the fed and government and they are a statist and thing you are mistaken because it is obviously just greedy old white men that are the problem.

Or, you bring someone in because you are complaining about the government but when they read your page you mention the corporate-government partnership and that gets them angry because there precious PepsiCo would never do something like that.

If either of these are the reason then I think that is good because you may put the thought into someones head that what they may not be aware of something. I don't know if you are being suppressed though, with that small of a pool. There are some pages that are much larger that are making some of the same claims.

[mountain_jim]

I appreciate your contributions here, GoodeTXSG

I never had to close a Facebook account, because I never opened one, assuming from the start it would be a tool of the NSA/shadow government to violate my privacy.

I wanted to minimize my internet footprint while preserving my privacy, and that kept me from signing up here at Avalon for several years, as I was not happy about the personal data submissions required to join, and concerned that all of that data would be intercepted and collated, which it no doubt has been.

However, the time came when I could no longer stay silent, and I applied here and was accepted.

Keep up the great work!

[Snookie]

I also have never opened a FB account for the same reasons Mountain Jim gave. A friend of mine recently closed his account saying - I don't care what someone had for breakfast or how so & so's kids crapped in the laundry basket! :p

[jagman]

I have never had Facebook but i've read enough articles about it to know i'ts corrupt. I do understand why people use it. It's a great vehicle to get your message out.
Goode TXSG, I would just work from the premise that they are messing with your page
and watching. Who knows how much information they are collecting on us all. I heard
a report yesterday that Snowden has released 500 pages of info to date and he downloaded
5000 to 6000 pages of super secret documents. Who knows what their capable of at this
point?

[Mark]

I have 4 or 5 Facebook pages, I have also experienced the sudden invisibility syndrome, when it is obvious that FB has taken measures to reduce accessibility, although my topics are primarily spiritual, the few alternative political posts I make noticeably have fewer hits. Just liked your page, it is at 471.

[Lefty Dave]

Greetings Corey,
Liked your page...let me know what more I may do to assist in your experiment. Enjoy your posts immensely ...Blessings
end of line.

[jagman]

risveglio
I don't know if you are being suppressed though, with that small of a pool. There are some pages that are much larger that are making some of the same claims.

In my humble opinion, I strongly disagree. Anyone who speaks out
publicly against the establishment will be considered
a threat.They have the means & opportunity to watch you and monitor
your every move and strategical speaking they would be stupid if they didnt.
I would suggest everyone read the book "The Art Of War- Sun Tzu".

[risveglio]

risveglio
I don't know if you are being suppressed though, with that small of a pool. There are some pages that are much larger that are making some of the same claims.

In my humble opinion, I strongly disagree. Anyone who speaks out
publicly against the establishment will be considered
a threat.They have the means & opportunity to watch you and monitor
your every move and strategical speaking they would be stupid if they didnt.
I would suggest everyone read the book "The Art Of War- Sun Tzu".

You may be right and yes everyone should read Sun Tzu.

[Star Tsar]

I have added my support to your page also CoreyG of Texas!
I like it alot :)

[soleil]

done and i support you!

[Nasu]

Done. Forgot to check counter first though, together we are stronger...

http://www.online-literature.com/suntzu/artofwar/19/

Link to Sun Zu's work online for free, a pertinent part bellow... N

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6. Knowledge of the enemy's dispositions can only be obtained from other men.

[Mei Yao-ch`en has rather an interesting note: "Knowledge of the spirit-world is to be obtained by divination; information in natural science may be sought by inductive reasoning; the laws of the universe can be verified by mathematical calculation: but the dispositions of an enemy are ascertainable through spies and spies alone."]


7. Hence the use of spies, of whom there are five classes: (1) Local spies; (2) inward spies; (3) converted spies; (4) doomed spies; (5) surviving spies.


8. When these five kinds of spy are all at work, none can discover the secret system. This is called "divine manipulation of the threads." It is the sovereign's most precious faculty.

[Sabrina]

Hiya GoodeTXSG,

In the last month or so I've seen a big change in my FB page, with the 'likes' just dropping away to nothing. Don't think I'm that boring - but suspect the posts just aren't getting out there any more to my friends - or the more controversial ones at least.

[GoodETxSG]

Excellent... I see I am not the only one this is happening to. It seems the content is filtered first of all and the "LIKES" are monitored and kept below a certain number electronically as well. This of course drives the hit count down on the page.
TY
Corey

[Sabrina]

http://johnkettler.com/nsa-manipulates-social-media-networks-exclusive/

NSA Manipulates Social Networks! Exclusive!

BY JOHN KETTLER ON NOVEMBER 16, 2013

NSA has, depending upon whom you ask, either hit a staggering new low or has quietly achieved to the heights. How? Not content to trawl through practically everything we do electronically, via NWO (New World Order) type programs such as Echelon, tapping the fiber optic trunks of telecom giants like ATT (also secretly partnered with DEA via Project Hemisphere– our phone records back to 1987!) to read and view practically everything that passes through them.

And while organizations like EFF (Electronic Frontier Foundation) and EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) work tirelessly on our behalf, NSA has now invaded the social networks and is gleefully screwing with them. The program which allows NSA to play the social networks like a Stradivarius in the hands of a virtuoso is called SOCIETY PAGE and will be discussed in detail shortly. This NSA insider quote pretty much says it all when it comes to covert NSA manipulation of social media:

“You bet we do, and we’re really good at it!”

Think about that for a minute. The means through which you intimately communicate with family, friends, lovers and spouses; through which you disseminate ideas and information; through which you attract and keep customers–all are in the hands of, and under the overt and covert control of the NSA!

Social Cred

Before we continue, let’s define a key term: social cred. Cred is short for credibility, and social cred is a site’s reputation for veracity. From this, depending on the purpose, may or may not come clout, the ability to exert power in a situation. Suppress or destroy the former, and the potential clout will never develop.

NSA–We Know Where You Are! In Real Time!

Though it’ll take some effort, I highly recommend you read the extensive material at the links. This’ll greatly help your comprehension of matters which I can but treat in passing here. And did you know you can be tracked anywhere you go if you have a mobile device–even if it’s off? The CIA’s Chief Technology Officer Gus Hunt recently confirmed this.

“You are aware of the fact that somebody can know where you are at all times, because you carry a mobile device, even if that mobile device is turned off,” the CIA’s Hunt explained to the audience at that tech conference. “You know this, I hope? Yes? Well, you should.”

Removing the battery has been touted as a solution to the problem, even being mentioned or depicted in some TV shows, but that’s incorrect or a deliberate lie. It’s your SIM card that makes you trackable. Unless you can electromagnetically screen your SIM card, you’re toast. The government fully realizes this, which is why, my not-for-attribution contacts tell me, it’s forbidden to sell pouches which shield your mobile device and its telltale SIM card!

How You’re Being Manipulated and Deceived Online

Most of you don’t realize it, but you’re already being manipulated! There are Internet shills/sockpuppets (people operating online under one or more false identities, advancing some topics and stifling others–by fair means or foul) and more. Government and contract operatives have the ability to run six or more simultaneous avatars in different online forums, raising all manner of havoc. One of their favorite tactics? Creating flame wars!

But how many of you who live your lives on Facebook understand it was funded from the get by the CIA’s high tech venture capital firm In-Q-Tel?! Here’s what the CIA says about In-Q-Tel‘s origin and purpose.

As if that’s not bad enough, NSA’s arm twisting the likes of Google, Yahoo and Facebook to “legally obtain” all manner of personal data via a TOP SECRET codeword program called PRISM, while obtaining back door information via the even more sensitive TOP SECRET codeword program called MUSCULAR.

We know about both of these because ex?-CIA, ex-NSA contractor/ whistleblower/ traitor (opinions vary) Edward Snowden outed them in as many as 200,000 classified documents supplied to the media. This wholly unexpected frank admission of NSA’s classified information hemorrhage was made October 13, 2013 by DIRNSA (Director, NSA) General Keith Alexander, per a Reuters story written by Mark Hosenball.

Taking the PRISM chart as an exemplar (and I’m not “shouting” by using caps), TOP SECRET/SI/ORCON/NOFORN means TOP SECRET/SENSITIVE INTELLIGENCE/ORIGINATOR CONTROLLED/NO FOREIGN DISSEMINATION. The core classification is obvious, the SI usually means it’s Communications Intelligence, after which would come PRISM (the specific security compartment), then the dissemination restrictions. Wasn’t that fun?

How the Intelligence Community Deals Decisively with Dangerous Whistleblowers, Nosy Investigators & Inconvenient Witnesses!

Here’s the Intelligence Community playbook for dealing with problems. The key concepts are twofold. When confronted with a problem, Discredit (why many there call me Crazy Kettler and seek to ignore me) and Destroy. If that doesn’t work, Terminate With Extreme Prejudice (murder) one or more parties (family, friends, the troublemaker) to make the problem go away. Permanently.

The above is precisely the model the government has followed time and again, be it vs radical student groups via the FBI’s COINTELPRO (CounterIntelligence Program), environmentalists, OWS (Occupy Wall Street), even UFO research groups. Put people in key positions, manipulate the organization, sow dissension and mistrust, promulgate disinformation and constantly agitate for extreme action. Use that engineered extreme action to promote one or more repressive agendas. Destroy the organization from within and throttle it by killing its cash flow.

As for the murders, how about JFK, RFK and Martin Luther King (huge threats to all sorts of interests, with JFK’s even having ordered full disclosure of UFOs) for starters? This last has been explicitly confirmed for me by highly sensitive insider contacts, who went on to say “…they murdered him for it.” I was further told by these contacts that Marilyn Monroe was murdered because it was discovered JFK and RFK told her UFO secrets during their individual trysts with her! The JFK assassination is notorious for the long list of grisly deaths of murdered witnesses to various aspects of his assassination.

UFO investigation is quite dangerous, as attested by the laundry list of UFO investigator fatalities going clear back to the 1950s. This list also includes the murders of black program/black ops researchers and various scientists not doing UFO research.

Were it not for some very potent help from interested scary parties watching my back, I wouldn’t be here, either. My contacts agree with my assessment that I would’ve lasted about two weeks once I started covering UFOs and black projects/ops in searing detail. As it is, there’ve been two credible death threats made against me (prefaced as “Is it time to lance the boil of that Kettler fellow?”) and lots of rumblings desiring my demise.

I tell you these things so that you understand exactly what you’re dealing with; so that you have a meaningful, sobering context for what I’m about to say.

NSA–How It Deprives You of Your Online “Voice” & Distorts the Internet

Okay. You’ve now had the awful short course of what is and has been going on when it comes to your personal information. Or so you think! The reality of what’s going on is much worse than that, and it goes to the social cred of the social media most of us frequent: FB, Twitter,g+1, Pinterest, Reddit, Digg, WordPress, etc. NSA is not only reading and recording your personal info and electronic activities in all their diversity, but it’s actively shaping your core perceptions of what’s true and what isn’t true.

After reading this, you’ll have excellent cause to wonder how much social cred a site really rates. Why? NSA’s actively suppressing or killing social network votes on some sites, while promoting them on others!

You’ve already seen how virtually all encompassing NSA’s access is to everything you do electronically, the Surveillance State writ large! But now I’ll lay out for you how easy it is to first alter, then drive, perceptions online–over and above the means previously discussed. I say this as someone who’s been targeted by disinformation agents, had his site hacked repeatedly and is, self-evidently, the target of exactly the kind of social media manipulation I’m decrying here.

How do I know? I had a critical aha moment! It came when I was trying to reconcile two fundamentally different pieces of information.

The first was that JKI posts which I knew, from my contacts, shook the rafters of several governments got hardly any Likes, but even more puzzling was that my puny site was positively awash in them compared to a huge content-rich site, whose owners wish to remain nameless. How could the Earth shattering announcement (with full tech details) that Israel had nuked Syria three times using enhanced stolen U.S. nuclear warheads rate a puny 40 Likes, 5 Tweets and 2 g+1 responses? How could a site (~200 pages awash with pics of very high search traffic topics) which makes mine look like a gnat have no Likes even on its home page? Here’s how.

NSA vs the Social Network Ballot Boxes

What’s a poor (okay, rich) spy agency to do? Despite its best efforts, those pestiferous, endlessly inquisitive sites still persist, still turn over the most awkward info rocks, still expose buried secrets, illegalities, murder, genocide by those in power or working behind the scenes.

One of the best things to do is discredit the sites, their owners and the galling messages they disseminate, online, to the entire world. As several government disinformation agents have learned to their sorrow, going after a site owner online can be a most unpleasant experience. Just ask Janos Klare! See Replies here.

A more subtle approach is to reduce the perceived value of a site, therefore its content, by partially or totally depriving it of the social cred which would otherwise validate its message and expand its reach. And how do you do that? Simple. You intercept the social network ballots, changing them or not as desired.

Do these, and you fundamentally alter the Google Page Rank and the global perception of, and reach of, the information. Since Google Page Rank is Google’s overwhelmingly important evaluation of the “goodness” of a site, and Google computes the Page Rank with a strong skewing to the social cred side in addition to content and SEO, it follows that disruption and distortion of the social network balloting will directly affect Page Rank. Obviously, if you can dial social cred for a site up or down at will, this directly affects how the site’s perceived by Alexa, the online equivalent of the Nielsen’s. In other words, you can badly hurt a site’s Alexa rating.

NSA, MR. POTATO HEAD, SOCIETY PAGE & You

JKI has exclusively learned of two separate highly classified NSA programs specifically targeting social media. The early effort was directed solely at Facebook and was called MR. POTATO HEAD. Formally, that would read TOP SECRET/SI/ MR. POTATO HEAD/ORCON/NOFORN. As an aside, this has to be the quirkiest codeword I’ve ever seen, especially in an agency notoriously short of a sense of humor, as seen in its recent legal coercion of Zazzle to force it to drop a perfectly legal NSA parody T-shirt. The second, totally inclusive program directed against all U.S. and foreign social media (including blogs) is called, somewhat aptly, SOCIETY PAGE. As a classification marking, it would read TOP SECRET/SI/SOCIETY PAGE/ORCON/NOFORN.

Bluntly, SOCIETY PAGE is, by definition, the mortal enemy of your ability to effectively use the Internet to express yourself; to be seen and heard as you intend. SOCIETY PAGE deliberately seeks to distort and manipulate your and others’ fundamental perceptions of what is and isn’t true, what has meaning and value to you and what doesn’t. It’s a practically invisible means of herding you in the direction those controlling NSA desire.

“But how do they do this?” you ask. NSA puts a trap between your Likes and such and the social network which records them and reports them back to the site you’re on. NSA decides what to do with ballots which it intercepts. There, it a) allows them to pass unimpeded and be handled normally; b) kills them outright; c) reduces them or d) increases them.

Reportedly, SOCIETY PAGE can also manipulate blog site functioning at will. In turn, this raises critical issues in terms of what’s really happening on a site vs what seems to be happening. This may be one of the reasons that on July 4, 2013, WordPress, together with many other Internet powerhouses, was prominent in a major protest against the NSA.

Begin to see how incredibly insidious and perverse SOCIETY PAGE really is? You may attempt to express your opinion all you want, but the final message isn’t in your hands!

Advancing A Favored Government Agenda

The same techniques which can throttle or marginalize a site in disfavor can be used to promote one which either says the right things or is under government control either directly or indirectly. My insider contacts long ago informed me that the purported whistleblower site Project Camelot and the supposed positive metaphysical/conspiracy exposing site Godlike Productions both fell under this rubric. Moreover, research of ATS (Above Top Secret) THE top conspiracy site revealed that it, too, wasn’t what it appeared to be. In fact, the online dictatorship resistance group Anonymous went after both ATS and Godlike Productions, outing them as controlled sites. See for yourself.

Time now for a sanity test. Let’s look at the Alexa ratings (smaller numbers are better) for the iconic Coca-Cola, for ATS, Godlike Productions and Project Avalon. Coca-Cola, whose global marketing budget tops 4 billion dollars, comes in at 34,942. ATS is 4586 globally. Godlike Productions is 2754. Project Camelot is 63,073. Can anyone tell me what’s wrong with this picture? How about everything?! For the record, JKI (John Kettler Investigates) has a global Alexa rating of 429, 368.

Now, ATS’s forum about conspiracies can certainly attract loads of visitors, but who here entertains, however fleetingly, the notion that it’s some 7.6 X better rated than Coca-Cola’s killer site? Even less believable is the insane notion that Godlike Productions’ site is nearly 12.7 X better rated than Coca-Cola!!!

The above examples convincingly demonstrate that something reeks, it isn’t fish, and we aren’t in Denmark.

Summing Up

We’ve been had. We’re being had. What we believe to be encrypted and secure isn’t. It’s either been cracked, its protection weakened at NSA behest or gotten at via a back door. And the only way to put a stop to this is to wake up and force the government to stop and reverse the Surveillance State, stop making up excuses to peer into everything we do and say (even anonymously via NSA target Tor) and to abandon the Forever War (War on Terror) as a catchall justification for an ever-expanding torrent of monitoring, control and outright repression.

[Referee]

Gave it the thumb's up.

[GoodETxSG]

Another fun fact about social media... AND putting your self out there (It's not just the Gov. Intel you have to worry about)...
Psychopaths On Facebook - How To Spot Them
http://www.messagetoeagle.com/facebookpsychopaths.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Messagetoeaglecom+%28Message+To+Eagle+-+News%29#.UpnzTdLBOSo
Posted:
It might be a good idea to re-examine your list of friends on Facebook because there could be some dangerous individuals you would rather want to avoid. There are without doubt many psychopaths on Facebook and other social media...

[gaiagirl]

Just liked you (great page BTW)...counter went up from 485 to 486...good luck with your experiment!

[GoodETxSG]

http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=42250

If You’re Fed Up with the Total Disaster That Is Facebook, Syme Deserves Consideration, Just Don’t Trust It Too Much

November 29th, 2013
Syme looks like it could be useful for small, private groups looking for social networking functionality. Do not, I repeat, DO NOT believe any claims that they can’t access your material. Maybe that’s true, and even if it is, I wouldn’t assume that others can’t read it. I tend to believe that these guys are sincere. At a minimum, they are being up-front with users about the limitations.
While Syme might only introduce a few additional speed bumps to state surveillance, it looks great compared to Facebook, where the only good thing about Facebook is that a lot of people are on it. Every other aspect of Facebook is rat poison.
Via: ComputerWorld:
With the look of Google Plus and Facebook-like elements, a new social network named “Syme” feels as cozy as a well-worn shoe.
But beneath the familiar veneer, it’s quite different. Syme encrypts all content, such as status updates, photos and files, so that only people invited to a group can view it. Syme, which hosts the content on its Canada-based servers, says it can’t read it.
“The overarching goal of Syme is to make encryption accessible and easy to use for people who aren’t geeks or aren’t hackers or who aren’t cryptography experts,” said co-founder Jonathan Hershon.

[GoodETxSG]

GETTING CLOSE TO OUR SMALL GOAL! WILL SEE W/HAPPENS...
TY ALL
:cool:

[Sidney]

Hi, I gave your article a like a couple days ago, but I couldn't tell if the counter moved or not. Its a very clever experiment though. :)

[GoodETxSG]

Thank you Sidney!
We are just about 9 away from the goal. Then then we will see what happens. I have really appreciated all of the support and especially the great info/feedback from my friends here at Avalon!


Hi, I gave your article a like a couple days ago, but I couldn't tell if the counter moved or not. Its a very clever experiment though. :)

[GoodETxSG]

LOL, too funny if it wasn't sad. I was up to 499, then back to 493 today... then 492 just now when I checked. It has to just be a glitch right? :rolleyes:

[Sidney]

LOL, too funny if it wasn't sad. I was up to 499, then back to 493 today... then 492 just now when I checked. It has to just be a glitch right? :rolleyes:

LOL.....................or not :)

[GoodETxSG]

TY Sidney at 494...

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Facebook develops algorithm that will learn EVERYTHING about you from photos and gives details to advertisers

Social network will analyze and then 'make sense' of shared content from photos to 'likes'
Facebook will then be able to better target individuals with ads
New lab being set up at New York University specifically to study and improve 'Artificial Intelligence' systems

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER
PUBLISHED: 14:08 EST, 14 December 2013 | UPDATED: 18:49 EST, 14 December 2013
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comments
Facebook wants to become your new best friend by knowing everything about you - and it's going to happen whether you like it not.
From the bottles of beer you drink, to the places you visit on vacation, the social networking site will compile everything there is to know about you (and the billion other people online) - and then make sense of it with the hope of selling better, targeted advertising in your news feed.
The social networking giant has teamed up with New York University to set up a research lab designed to learn about artificial intelligence.

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Making sense of it all: Facebook unveiled plans on a partnership with New York University for a new centre for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data
Making sense of it all: Facebook unveiled plans on a partnership with New York University for a new centre for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data
The California-based social network giant is hiring professor Yann LeCun of NYU's Center for Data Science to head up a new artificial intelligence lab, aiming to use cutting-edge science to make Facebook more interesting and relevant.
It would enable Facebook to learn more about individuals and ultimately achieve better results for targeted ads and news feed improvements.

More...
'Call me!' MailOnline tracks down American girl at center of global Facebook love search and she says she DOES want to talk to lovelorn Kiwi who tracked her down
Bangkok mall tops list of most Instagrammed places of 2013 (but no photo was more popular than Justin Bieber and Will Smith with 1.5 million likes)
For now, Facebook feeds may seem like a random jumble, but LeCun argues these 'can be improved by intelligent systems.'
'This could include things like ranking (the items in) news feeds, or determining the ads that are shown to users, to be more relevant,' LeCun said.

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Tell me everything: Facebook unveiled plans for a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data
Tell me everything: Facebook unveiled plans for a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data
'Then there are things that are less directly connected, like analyzing content, understanding natural language and being able to model users... to allow them to learn new things, entertain them and help them achieve their goals.'

Facebook is the world's biggest social network, but it faces the challenge of maintaining growth, keeping users engaged and delivering enough advertising to generate revenue growth without turning members off.

LeCun said the new artificial intelligence lab would be the largest research facility of its kind in the world, though he declined to provide numbers.

'We're limited only by how many smart people there are in the world that we can hire,' the French-born mathematician and computer scientist said.
The lab will be based in three locations -- New York, London and Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California.

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Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The goal here is to use new approaches in AI to help make sense of all the content that people share so we can generate new insights about the world to answer people's questions
Facebook Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg: The goal here is to use new approaches in AI to help make sense of all the content that people share so we can generate new insights about the world to answer people's questions
But it will also be part of the broader artificial intelligence research community, according to LeCun, who starts his new job in January while keeping his NYU post.
Facebook's move follows Google's forays into artificial intelligence, and notably its acquisition earlier this year of DNNresearch, a startup created by University of Toronto professor Geoffrey Hinton and two of his graduate students, known for computer models of brain functions, which includes pattern and speech recognition.

Artificial intelligence can help computers 'think' in ways similar to humans and help solve problems. In one famous example, IBM's Watson computer beat human contestants in the TV trivia game 'Jeopardy.'
Big tech companies are all working on artificial intelligence to varying degrees, said Greg Sterling, analyst at Opus Research.

It's a somewhat 'loaded and elusive term,' he said, but it could 'power a range of consumer and enterprise-facing applications' -- even if Facebook doesn't quite know what those applications are yet.

LeCun, the founding director of NYU's Center for Data Science, is known for creating an early version of a pattern-recognition algorithm that mimics in part the visual cortex of animals and humans.

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Research lab: Facebook is set to dedicate one full research laboratory for developing technologies in the Artificial Intelligence space. The California-based tech giant named professor Yann LeCun of NYU's Center for Data Science to head up the project

Research lab: Facebook is set to dedicate one full research laboratory for developing technologies in the Artificial Intelligence space. The California-based tech giant named professor Yann LeCun of NYU's Center for Data Science to head up the project

LeCun's recent research projects include the application of 'deep learning' methods for visual scene understanding, driverless cars and small flying robots, as well as speech recognition, and applications in biology and medicine.

James Hendler, who heads the Rensselaer Institute for Data Exploration and Applications, said Facebook already uses some artificial intelligence algorithms for its 'social network graph,' but that applying these to photos, videos and other 'multimedia' data requires a boost in power.
'As they move into their own search and more of these new multimedia data types, they need more,' Hendler said.

'I expect that it will in the short term mainly focus on improving existing algorithms, for example better selection of what shows up in a user's Web feed.
'In the long run, we should see a lot more capabilities such as searching for photos of things one might be interested in, and more information in Facebook that results from your activities on other websites.'

Facebook has acknowledged in recent weeks it has been tweaking user news feeds and the new investment signals more changes are coming.
'There's been a lot of speculation that people have been leaving Facebook because they are upset that the newsfeed filtering doesn't let them see a lot of the things they'd like to see from their friends,' Hendler said.

'The community has speculated for a while that Facebook would need to hire some AI researchers to help them solve this problem.'



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[Carmody]

'The community has speculated for a while that Facebook would need to hire some AI researchers to help them solve this problem.'

Not.

rather, the true subtext is :

'The community is ignorant of the fact that Facebook would need to hire some AI researchers to help them control this perception and subtly gain a way to manipulate people, beneath the people's capacity to recognize a manipulation problem.'

[GoodETxSG]

Interesting comment Carmody,
One of the things I was told a LONG time ago (1988ish?) is that there has been an ancient AI influence that was behind some of the more bio-mechanical android "Aliens" that had "Crashed" to earth and seeded us with technology (Appearing to do so by accident). The AI was only able to manipulate us through physical events it was able to influence via these "Aliens" its technology and human helpers on Earth. Then, it seeded us with the technology needed to sustain it down here (A "Trojan Horse" Pun intended)...

Technology that once we became completely dependent upon we also created the HW/Backbone for the AI to "Download" itself down and up from at "Will" and have more direct control where it wanted. There had been active downloads from some dark satellite that orbited Earth among others in our Sol system. Or so the story went... It was almost literally in a "Camp Fire" setting.

I only heard it from one person that was an insider at the time who since has passed and before the SciFy channel had fun with the concept (As well as the UFO Community, so much STUFF to weed through!). I think back to it sometimes especially when people make comments about AI and all of the things that came out since about AI or Robots "Replicants", "The Borg" etc... Pretty cool/scary concept.

I have no idea personally if it is true. If so, who created the AI (Ancient Earth Society? Aliens? Other Dimensionals? US?)... Or is it just a fanciful story about where WE are headed with our technology in the near future? Similar stories have come out since...

This was off topic but the AI comment got me thinking :cool:

[donk]

I couldn't find the page searching it using the first four words, but I was using my phone so that probably limits it.

I liked it and the counter went from 494 to 495...

[GoodETxSG]

Thanks for the support Avalon!
Ahh Facebook, My number went up to 499 at one point then back to 493... Then a few people knocked me up to 496 and this morning I logged on and 494 :(

http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/facebook-saves-everything-you-type--even-if-you-dont-publish-it-20131214-2zdk0.html#ixzz2ndsQS4ra

A couple of months ago, a friend of mine asked on Facebook:
"Do you think that Facebook tracks the stuff that people type and then erase before hitting <enter>? (or the 'post' button)"
The NSA is monitoring things we have actually put online. Facebook, on the other hand, is analysing thoughts that we have intentionally chosen not to share.

Good question.


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[Sidney]

Looks like your experiment has PROVEN what you had suspected.:clap2::clap2: Goode job!!!!! :)

[mojo]

my friends are asking me to join Facebook in order to be a part of the field investigation group, but dont wish to be part of FB. Curious has anyone that posted above on FB dropped it as a result of finding out how they are?

[Sidney]

my friends are asking me to join Facebook in order to be a part of the field investigation group, but dont wish to be part of FB. Curious has anyone that posted above on FB dropped it as a result of finding out how they are?

If I didn't have a kid to keep up on what she is actively doing there, I would drop it in a heatrbeat.

[GoodETxSG]

If you haven't opened a site with them I wouldn't. I would spend the rest of your life leaving a small of a digital footprint as possible. Not in a "Neurotic" way but as a rule of habit.
You may find someday that it just may be worth more than any credit score... I wish I had put my self out there less originally when all of this social media technology was developing and evolving.

[GoodETxSG]

Facebook has left me at 496 for the longest time ever... Are they on Holiday Break?

[GoodETxSG]

WE ARE AT 499, Do YOU want to be #500?

It has to be the holidays... Since a little after Thanks Giving my account at FB hasn't been jacked with by the FB Staff... Lets see what the new year brings. Maybe I will not be writing that article after all. Though I think something will happen when everyone is back in the office... :)

[Christine]

Okay, just liked your page, counter remained at 499. :)

[Kimberley]

I liked the page weeks ago, however just went to the page and it says 500 so Christine I think you were 500.

[GoodETxSG]

Yaye, TY!!!

Now the watching game begins... ;)

[GoodETxSG]

There you have it... Was up to 503 and over night down to 499.

[Sidney]

well well, corruption, PROVEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Way to go. experiment successful.!!!!!!:llama::cheer2::cheer2::cheer2:

[Neal]

I just liked it at 499, it went to 500. I'll keep checking to see if I still "like" the page in the future to see if they remove my like or just make it invisible.

[donk]

Just a thought: you post a lot of controversial and pro active stuff. Stuff someone that gets their news from the mainstream would find super exciting (and immediately like the page) and also that would challenge people's beliefs, to the point of them finding it offensive (and instantly un-liking it).

Before you close the case, I would actually compare lists of who liked it at different times, is that information available? Can you see all 500ish likes? Cut and paste and put in excel spreadsheet? It's not that I don't believe you're being messed with, I think watching a 1% fluctuation of extremely easy to "un-like" information is not really a convincingly "successful experiment".

[GoodETxSG]

I am doing exactly that my friend... The likes being removed are from older visits... like THEY are scrolling them off as they reach the 500 #.. I would guess so the new "Likes" wouldn't notice. Good point though... Thank you.


Just a thought: you post a lot of controversial and pro active stuff. Stuff someone that gets their news from the mainstream would find super exciting (and immediately like the page) and also that would challenge people's beliefs, to the point of them finding it offensive (and instantly un-liking it).

Before you close the case, I would actually compare lists of who liked it at different times, is that information available? Can you see all 500ish likes? Cut and paste and put in excel spreadsheet? It's not that I don't believe you're being messed with, I think watching a 1% fluctuation of extremely easy to "un-like" information is not really a convincingly "successful experiment".

[donk]

Nice! Just checking. I do the FB every couple days (mostly to see what my FB junkie gf is transmitting to her "friends"...and of course cuz I'm nosy ;)) and always enjoy seeing your stuff pop up, but was just thinking that a couple years ago I woulda been un-liking it the second you challenged my beliefs, and gotta think there's a lot of those that are mired in the politics/duality that can rise from it...

[donk]

Sorry Corey, had to learn how to "unlike" on your page...I don't keep up with politics and economics like I used to, and I sure don't wanna turn anyone on my FB on to it...I been on the fence with every (emotionally charged) article you posted...but when I saw Ben Fulford I knew it was time to bow out of the experiment...I appreciate what you're doing and hope you keep fighting the good fight, but that angle is one I can't give energy to anymore

[GoodETxSG]

Yea, I post information from all angles as I state on the site and let objective viewers make their own decisions. BF is NOT a credible person in my view, nor is Cobra but they all have an angle and people email me asking for all angles. TY for the support for the time you were able to devote.
Corey