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    Facebook patents tech to determine social class

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    Violet Blue
    Violet Blue
    02.09.2018

    We've got great news this week for nation-state employees tasked with using social media to spark a class war in previously stable democracies! Facebook is patenting technology to decide if its users are upper, middle or working class -- without even using the usual marker for social class: an individual's income (the patent considers this a benefit).