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Revealed: The Many Evils Of Facebook.

In 2014, Facebook publicly admitted to manipulating the news feeds of almost 700,000 users without their knowledge. The goal? To measure whether it was possible to change people's emotional states simply by controlling the type of content that appeared on their screens.

For a week, some users received more negative posts, while others only saw positive messages. The result confirmed what was already suspected: people's moods were affected — and they began to post content with the same emotional charge that they were consuming.

This experiment, conducted in partnership with university researchers, revealed something frightening: social networks have the power to manipulate emotions en masse in a silent, almost invisible way — and all this without the need for violence, just with algorithms.

The question that remains is: if they did this in a "scientific" test, what else has been tested in silence? And how many decisions that we think are ours were actually induced by invisible lines of code?

[graphic & text courtesy of Revellati Online]

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A study entitled, "The Effect Of Deactivating Facebook And Instagram On Users' Emotional State" has just been released by the National Bureau of Economic Research. The study says there "is an active debate over how social media affect users’ psychological well-being. Do social media make people happier, for example by facilitating beneficial social connections? Or do they make people depressed and anxious, for example by reducing face-to-face interactions or increasing unfavorable social comparisons? Some analysts argue that social media have contributed to the alarming recent decline in young people’s mental health." The study concludes, "Our estimates suggest that deactivating Facebook or Instagram improved people’s emotional state."

If being experimented on isn't enough and you aren't worried about Facebook affecting your mental state, here's another reason to break your social media addiction: privacy. A new article has been published on Tuta.com entitled, "All The Data Facebook Collects - And How To Stop This". The article goes into a fair amount of detail on how Facebook tags and tracks your behavior, but here's an overview:

What data does Facebook collect and track?

• All your profile information
• Any actions you've performed on the platform
• How you engage with content
• Your political preferences
• Your device's data
• All your browsing data
• Your current and past locations
• Your purchasing habits online and in stores

Most people have no idea that posting a favorite cookie recipe on Facebook opens them up to this kind of surveillance. It's probably revealed somewhere deep in a user agreement written by a highly paid attorney, but few people read those agreements in their entirety, and companies like Meta (Facebook's corporate name) take full advantage of it.

Unfortunately the only way back to safety is to delete your Facebook account, and most likely the accounts of any other Meta products you use, such as Instagram and WhatsApp. If that's a bridge too far for you, Tuta.com has another guide you might find useful: "How To Make Your Facebook Private: Yes, It Is Possible".

Isn't it time you take back your life from the soulless tech companies that play with your emotions and harvest your personal data for profit?

The Left Isn't Interested In Your Point Of View.

"The left refuses to have discussions with anyone who disagrees with them. They'll shout at you, they'll ban you, they'll burn your property, but they won't have a conversation." - Timo Malum

[Timo Malum has been kicked off of, and banned from, Twitter/X, Facebook, Mastodon, and BlueSky, for nothing more than posting factual data that contradicts radical left talking points. These platforms will delete your account without warning, refuse to consider appeals for reinstatement, and ignore all emails seeking an explanation. To the left, free speech is only for those who push and repeat Marxist and woke ideologies. No one else has the right to speak. And yet they complain about authoritarianism and label anyone who challenges them as "fascist".]

Notes From Clown World: March 24, 2025.

Here's an interesting post from social media site 'Mastodon', home of the worst snowflake leftists in the world. It shows a man holding a sign that reads, "Tax all the churches to pay for universal healthcare. It's what God would have wanted." 

Wow, so much could be said here. But for starters, why does the left support universal healthcare, which reinforces the deadly medical industrial complex including Big Pharma, but rarely mentions healthy living or natural solutions? The left used to be the realm of counterculture hippies living off the land, but they've flipped and now embrace chemicals, unproven science, lab-grown meat, and forced medical procedures. I know liberals who won't eat a vegetable but they line up for every vaccine they can get, thinking it makes them healthy. Maybe if more of them learned how to grow their own food and tried homeopathy instead of submitting to endless medical tests and buying sacks of prescription drugs they wouldn't need universal healthcare. The way of life they endorse only enrichens the very capitalist society they claim to hate.

I can't move on without mentioning the line, "It's what God would have wanted." It's ironic that anyone on the left would claim to speak for God, considering how many of them are atheists. The statement is sacrilegious whether used by an atheist or a person of faith. God can speak for himself, and I doubt he'll do it through memes.

Another post from Mastodon comes from "Evacide" who warns about "rising authoritarianism". This one caught my eye because we just lived through one of the most authoritarian presidential administrations in American history, and people like Evacide stayed totally quiet about it. For four years I watched the left ignore Joe Biden's corruption, lies, and endless efforts to silence free speech. Even when Biden threatened to send the National Guard door to door to pressure people into getting the COVID vaccine, the left said nothing. But their hypocrisy is deafening, and it's why I tune them out when they whine about everything a Republican or other conservative does. The left has no integrity, and thus they have no credibility.

Mastodon can be a lot of fun. You get to see some really crazy stuff that the left actually believes. But the post above from "FeloniousPunk" is a bit worrisome. He/She/They? says "I expect we're about 60 days out from total chaos. Things are going to get truly ugly folks, prepare accordingly." 

What is meant by this? Is He/She/They afraid of what Donald Trump might do next? Or is this a warning that the radical left and their ANTIFA thugs are about to hit the streets with violent protests? Are we going to have another "summer of love" like we did in 2020, when gangs of losers took over city streets and burned businesses? Will highways be shut down by mobs of protesters, many of them hired by Marxist organizations to create chaos? If so, how bad will it get, and how will the police respond this time?

I have no problem with peaceful protests, but if the left tries the same disruptive criminal activity they did in 2020, they need to be quickly stopped, arrested, and prosecuted. Violence is a tactic of Marxism, and it can't be allowed in a civil society.

I saw the poll above on a News Nation website. It asks, "How concerned are you about being in public spaces right now?" The results are interesting. 43% of respondents are "somewhat concerned", and 21% are "very concerned", meaning the majority of us are concerned to some degree about being in public spaces, despite statistics showing that violent crime is declining and is, in most places, much lower than it was thirty years ago. Yet the public lives in fear. I suspect their fear comes from the mind-control news media, which profits by scaring people so that we come back every day to see what new things we need to be scared of. We also see the worst news repeated and amplified on social media sites, and few of us take the time to consider if we're actually safer today than we were before.

The result is that large numbers of us hide in our homes with the blinds closed and the door triple-locked, peering out at the street on phones connected to video doorbells. We're becoming prisoners in our own homes, living in fear of the monsters we imagine might want to hurt us.

Finally for the biggest clown in Clown World, we have Donald Trump complaining about his portrait on display in the Colorado Capitol building. Trump called it “truly the worst” and that it "was purposefully distorted to a level that even I, perhaps, have never seen before”. He then insulted the artist.

We already know Trump is a narcissist, but his whining about the portrait takes it to a whole new level. What a little baby. I think the portrait makes him look better. He should be flattered.

Bluesky Proves The Land Of The Left Is The Land Of The Lost.

It didn't take long. Another social media site run by the radical left has kicked me out. Not long after having my Mastodon accounts deleted without cause, Bluesky has now done the same. To be honest, I'm surprised I lasted as long as I did, but not because I broke any rules. To the contrary, I was polite and civil and did my best to link to sources whenever I posted anything related to health and science issues. But I did post news articles and podcasts that I hoped would open some minds and maybe create a dialog. For my efforts I was called a Nazi and a MAGA cultist, and my sources were all dismissed as being not good enough for the pseudo-intellectuals who read my posts. But I wasn't very active on Bluesky at all, preferring to keep a low profile and gently nudging rather than shoving in an attempt to not be cancelled. How did it work out? Here's the email I received from the "Bluesky Moderation Team":

Bluesky's moderators claim I posted content that promoted "hateful content" or was "disruptive to others". This claim is a lie. I was careful to be respectful of others. I'm not a bully and never have been, but I will stand up for myself if attacked and I will correct misinformation when I see it. But apparently in the land of the left, replying with factual data is perceived as being disruptive. The left has become so obsessed with conformity and obedience that instead of resembling the free-love hippies of the 1960's they're now more like the hive-mind Borg creatures of Star Trek. Independent thought isn't allowed. Be assimilated or be destroyed.

They don't believe in shared truth. They use words as weapons. They rely on you implicitly assuming that they have good intentions and are aiming at shared truth. It's a deception. For Marxists, dialogue is not a way of attaining truth. It is a forum for manipulation.

Although I had low expectations, I did go through the motions of filing an appeal to my account's deletion. Two days later and no one at Bluesky has bothered to reply. And honestly, the only reply I expect to get is "appeal rejected", which is the reply I got from Mastodon and also a year earlier from Elon Musk's Twitter/X.

This is the world we now live in: a world where mentally weak anonymous authoritarians function as social media moderators and censor anything that upsets their frail emotions or is seen as a threat to their demonic Marxist agenda. It isn't possible to have a real conversation with these people. Dissenting opinions are dismissed without thought. Their minds are closed. Their science is settled. Nothing changes until new propaganda is sent to them like a software upgrade.

I gave it my best shot. I tried on three separate social media sites. And now I question if it's possible to co-exist with people who are so mentally shut down, intolerant, and (strangely) arrogant.

Bluesky has proven to me that the land of the left is the land of the lost. But I won't stop talking. I have a voice. It's too bad the people who need to hear it the most will hear nothing but echoes of propaganda and hate coming from the soulless entities that control them.

Another Look At The Indoctrinated Left On Social Media.

It's time to take another look at the stupid, hateful, and sometimes insane posts I've found on left-leaning social media sites. Just when you think you've seen it all, someone, somewhere, is about to surprise you with a fresh dose of crazy. Let's take a look:

Our first post demonstrates the love and tolerance of the left. We have banners of a skull & crossbones, a pentagram, the ANTIFA logo, and right in the middle, a banner that says "trans rights or riot nights". Can you feel the love? This is the sort of tolerance that leads to mostly peaceful protests and burned cities.

Seen above is a post on the leftist swamp called Mastodon. Chris accuses Republicans of "projection", the tactic of accusing the other side of things you're actually doing. Trouble is, Democrats are the masters of projection, having successfully used the tactic for decades. Nancy Pelosi is the queen of projection, something she's actually bragged about. I'm no fan of the Republican Party, but I have to defend them against this post. They suck at projection and most other psychological tricks, which is why they lose so many elections. Yes, most Republicans are scum, but the Democrats always manage to out-scum them, and that's quite an accomplishment.

And now the left is defending the IRS and taxes. In this post, 'Democracy Matters' is worried that cuts to the Internal Revenue Service's budget will add to the national debt. They can't comprehend the idea of cutting spending. They also don't question the legality of the IRS, which has no Constitutional authority to exist. Government is sacred to them, and they'll happily let it control every aspect of their lives. It's the last refuge of the mentally enslaved masses.

Someone needs to tell Matt Blaze that Wikipedia is no longer an impartial, independent source of information. It's been infiltrated by intelligence agencies such as the CIA and the FBI. Wikipedia has become politically biased and tends to serve up pro-establishment narratives. Co-founder of Wikipedia, Larry Sanger, had this to say: “If only one version of the facts is allowed then that gives a huge incentive to wealthy and powerful people to seize control of things like Wikipedia in order to shore up their power. And they do that.” He said it (Wikipedia) “seems to assume that there is only one legitimate defensible version of the truth on any controversial question. That’s not how Wikipedia used to be.” [source]

Perhaps Matt would like to rethink his post?

In the post above, "Vee" has reposted something from Twitter/X. Kyle Rittenhouse posted a verse from the Bible, and Ryan Pinesworth replied with "You quoting scripture is like Dahmer quoting cookbooks." This is the kind of hateful comment we're gotten so used to from the left. Rittenhouse was acquitted of all charges, making his use of a firearm self-defense. But the left doesn't respect the law, they only respect power. If the law gets in the way of their agenda, the law has to be ignored, and that's why they see Rittenhouse as their enemy. He defended himself against radical leftists, and the court agreed. But that outcome doesn't help the agenda, so Rittenhouse is mocked and compared to a serial killer. It's essentially a mockery of the law.

"your auntifa liza" posted this slice of mental chaos: "suburban white people not used to describing white monsters". Does anyone know what she's talking about? Anyone?

Last for today, I'm seeing fresh fear from the left about COVID and bird flu. The global deep state seems determined to launch another "pandemic" to help usher in the technocratic world order. The fact that no viruses for either COVID or bird flu have ever been isolated and proven to exist makes no difference. Military-grade propaganda campaigns are the most powerful contagions of all. Social media sites are being seeded with scary news about outbreaks of bird flu and new "variants" of COVID, and the weak-minded and compliant leftists seem to be believing all of it. It's sad to see people fall for another psyop. But it's pathetic to see that people are still in so much fear from the last one that they're still wearing face masks. In the post above, "GeePawHill" declares, "I have worn a mask in every enclosed space I've been in for four years. I have not the slightest intention of allowing anyone, armed or not, ignorant or not, force me to remove it." What can I say to that? I'd like to insult "GeePawHill", but I can't. I actually feel sorry for him. He's listened to years of misinformation fed to him by government propagandists and medical industry profiteers. The propaganda was convincing and relentless, and it continues to this very day.

I hope he finds his way back to the truth and the light.

A Look At The Indoctrinated Left.

Those of the leftist persuasion, whether you call them liberals, Democrats, Marxists, socialists, or communists, share common traits: faith in authority, science as a religion, a hive-mind mentality, and an arrogance that makes them think they're smarter than the rest of us even when they're simply repeating false propaganda. I recently spent some time on a couple of Mastodon social media sites (before I was kicked out for posting verifiable, scientifically accurate information), and the posts I saw from the mostly left-leaning crowd were at times sad and at other times comical. Take a look at a few of them:

Here's a post from a user in Colorado who seems to be upset because the company she works for isn't taking COVID seriously anymore. Her profile pic shows her wearing a mask of some sort, and one of the hashtags says #CovidIsNotOver. I feel sad about this post, because "Prainbow" is living in fear of a fake pandemic and a virus that's never been proven to exist. The evidence is overwhelming that the COVID pandemic was a psycho-pandemic -- a behavior modification experiment and wealth transfer on a massive scale that led to millions of people voluntarily taking a bio-weapon disguised as a vaccine, and bankrupting small businesses for the benefit of Wall Street. Four years into it, and most of the people on the left are still clinging to the fake narrative created by a fascist partnership between Big Pharma and world governments. 

Here's a typical post from the left accusing Republicans of "lying through their teeth" throughout the election campaign. I'm not going to argue that Republicans don't lie. But for some reason, Democrats can never accept that their own team lies all the time. I left the Democratic Party a few years ago because of their endless lies and bullying. I doubt a more dishonest or corrupt political party has ever existed, yet the party's faithful voters are blind to it. They can watch Joe Biden say lie after lie in a debate but none of the lies register in their brains. But one thing that's correct in this post is the statement "We've created a post-truth society". Yes, the Democrats have definitely done that. It's a shame they can't accept what they've done.

Below is a super-intelligent reply I received when I posted scientific data from the NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) that said increased CO2 has been beneficial to plant life and has caused a "greening" of the planet. Somehow, "Dark Photon Studio" thinks carbon dioxide is pollution.

"Kelly" thinks the worst that's happened during COVID is "we've worn a mask and cleaned the air". She's ignoring the millions of injured and dead from the vaccines, the negative health effects of wearing masks, the years of censorship, the hospital death protocols of remdesivir and ventilators, the bankrupt businesses, the psychologically damaged children, the doctors who lost their licenses for refusing to support Fauci's lies, and the end of the public's trust of the medical system.  

Here's another person afraid of "viruses" and their imaginary potential to create communicable diseases. If you're wondering if anyone will fall for another pandemic psyop, stop wondering. The left will fall for it hook, line, and sinker. (That's a fishing expression, for all you Marxists who never leave your mom's basement.) The rest of us know that when the government tells us "bird flu" is spread by cows and the top symptom is pink eye, we're being lied to...once again.

Mr Herman says Kash Patel "promoted the falsehood that the 2020 election was 'stolen'. Millions of Americans agree with Patel on that issue, thanks to seemingly endless stacks of evidence that have emerged over the past four years. Unfortunately, the biased news media dismissed the evidence with scarcely a glance, and many courts refused to let cases move forward claiming the plaintiffs "lacked standing" (meaning the plaintiffs weren't injured by the fraud). Mr Herman makes no mention of Hillary Clinton, who still whines about the 2016 election, or the Kamala Harris fans who still haven't taken Harris' campaign signs out of their yards. I recently saw a post on Bluesky that claimed the 2024 election had been stolen from Harris. And let's not forget Stacy Abrams of Georgia, who implied for months that she had won the election for Governor in 2020. She just couldn't let it go. 

It's also interesting how Mr Herman put the phrase "deep state" in quotes, implying he doesn't believe such a thing exists. Who do you think has been running the federal government the past four years? It certainly wasn't Joe Biden.

This post from "BigDogBo" calls illegal immigrants "undocumented" for reasons only he can explain. Changing what you call something doesn't change what it is. He says he doesn't care if "undocumented immigrants" are in this country, which seems to be a typical stance of many on the left who pick and choose which laws are legitimate and which can be ignored. For example, vaccine mandates are good, but enforcing immigration laws is bad. That seems to be the way it works in lefty-land. "BigDogBo" then goes on to claim that illegal immigrants (oops, I mean "undocumented") aren't getting welfare. He follows up with some Marxist bullshit that's not worth my time to comment on. ("Hey kids! Socialism never worked before but I promise it will work next time!", says every socialist every time socialism fails once again.)

I can't even make sense of what Andrea Junker is saying about Donald Trump. What is this "terrorist regime" she's talking about? As for nepotism, Joe Biden just pardoned his son Hunter after repeatedly promising he wouldn't. She might be right about the criminality to a degree. I just wish she'd open her eyes to what the Biden crime family has been doing for decades. It makes Trump look like a cub scout. And I don't know what to say about her suggesting Trump is using espionage to destroy the United States. I can only assume she's been watching MSNBC or reading the DailyKOS and confusing them with real journalism.

I hope you enjoyed this peek at how the other side thinks. As daft as some of their comments may seem to mainstream America, rest assured they think THEY'RE the moderates who represent normalcy. No matter how far they drift from the Constitution and the values this republic was built on, they'll never see how radicalized they've become. 

They're sincere in their beliefs. Don't underestimate what they're willing to do to protect them.