Facebook's Secret Experiment That Manipulated 700,000 Users
Joe Rogan sat down with Harvard professor and mind control expert Rebecca Lemov. It didn’t take long to dive into one of his favorite topics: government interference in our digital lives.
Yet another reason I stay off of FakeBook.
(Other than the lifetime ban. I can get around that.) - DD
“One of the things we’ve talked about a lot on this podcast is, that an enormous percentage of what you’re seeing on social media in terms of interactions and debate is not real. It’s not organic,” he explained.
“It’s state-run and state-funded, and it’s whether it’s foreign governments or our government or even corporations, you’re getting inorganic discourse that’s designed to form a narrative and which is a form of mind control,” he added.
Lemov picked up on that point and took it further. Even when people know something is fake, she explained, our brains still react as if it were real.
“Yeah. I mean, I think even on a basic level, people, it’s known and studies have shown that we respond as if it were organic and real,” she said.
“Even when somebody likes a post of yours, the response is the same as, like, in-person interaction,” she added.
It’s not just governments pulling the strings, she warned. The platforms themselves are designed to influence how we feel.
“I think at the root, there is a kind of way that, on an emotional level, it’s not just manipulation of ideas,” she said, “but there’s a kind of emotional engineering that’s built into the platforms and doesn’t even demand, you know, at first, government involvement…