US military studied how to influence Twitter users in Darpa-funded research | World news | theguardian.com
Think Facebook's study on its users was creepy? The US Department of
Defense funded something very similar. Projects backed by the US
military recorded and analysed social media users' activities on
Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and Kickstarter...and studied how to
influence them.
study activists on social networks and Lady Gaga's influence, as
essential to US interests. Photograph: Stan Honda/AFP/Getty
