In 2014, Facebook conducted a secret experiment to see if it could manipulate the emotions of 689,000 users by editing the content of their feeds. For some users, only positive posts could be seen, and they subsequently posted positive messages of their own. Others only saw negative posts, and they tended to post negative messages. In an article published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, they concluded that shaping the posts that users could access had a measurable effect, “constituting, to our knowledge, the first experimental evidence for massive scale emotional contagion via social networks.” Facebook has the power to make you feel happy or sad, and likely an entire range of emotions in between.

perhaps the final outcome of our fears and our MKULTRA obsession will be a push toward all of us becoming versions of TheX-Files’s Fox Mulder: obsessed, suspicious and ultimately unsatisfied. We feel as though someone is meddling in our lives (the Deep State, the Deeper State, Russia, China, Google, Facebook, Gladys Kravitz), but we’re not sure how or who. Which explains how a conspiracy theory book climbed to No. 56 on the Amazon bestseller list, and No. 9 among political books. QAnon: An Invitation to the Great Awakening claims that the U.S. government created AIDS, polio and two of the Indiana Jones movies. It also states that prominent Democrats eat children and the world is run by a Satanic cabal headed by Hillary Clinton. The fact that the book was pushed up to No. 56 by manipulating Amazon’s algorithmically generated recommendations page only adds to the confusion.

The truth is out there.

https://nationalpost.com/entertainment/movies/from-the-fly-to-stranger-things-why-a-60-year-old-mind-control-program-has-become-a-persistent-pop-culture-trope