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Joe6pack 30 points ago +30 / -0

DARPA Lifelog. Government was collecting info on citizens, got shut down the same day facebook started. now the citizens willing expose and track themselves for the government.

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45fan 5 points ago +5 / -0

Government has its own incubator to give initial funding for social media. Guess which companies took that money?

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BasedTemplar 3 points ago +3 / -0

Guess it's a good thing that I've never used social media in my life then.

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MAGA_Flocka_Flame 1 point ago +1 / -0

I doubt it was truly “caused” by lifelog, more merged with it. I remember when stuff was released in 2013, one of the leaked docs said how CIA and NSA would reach out and provide funding and technology to companies that are “complicit” with them