{"id":24302,"date":"2017-06-29T07:23:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24302"},"modified":"2017-06-29T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T12:23:48","slug":"researchers-discover-that-social-media-posts-can-be-used-to-predict-riots-revolutions-and-even-the-weather","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=24302","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Discover That Social Media Posts Can Be Used To Predict Riots, Revolutions, And Even The Weather"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shtfplan.com\/headline-news\/researchers-shocking-discovery-social-media-posts-can-be-used-to-predict-riots-revolutions-and-even-the-weather_06272017\">Researchers Discover That Social Media Posts Can Be Used To Predict Riots, Revolutions, And Even The Weather<\/a><\/h3>\n<div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-46352\" src=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crystal-ball.png?resize=500%2C334\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crystal-ball.png?w=500 500w, http:\/\/i0.wp.com\/shtfplan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/crystal-ball.png?resize=300%2C200 300w\" alt=\"crystal-ball\" width=\"500\" height=\"334\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Most of us don\u2019t give much thought to what we post on social media, and a lot of what we see on social media is pretty innocuous. However, it only seems that way at first glance. The truth is that what we post online has a frightening potential. According to recent research from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and the University of Washington, the things we post on social media <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/tech\/3893003\/social-media-can-forecast-the-future-by-predicting-riots-revolutions-and-whether-its-going-to-rain-researchers-claim\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">could be utilized by software to predict future events<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In a paper that\u2019s just been published on Arxiv, the team of researchers found that social media can be used to <strong>\u201cdetect and predict offline events\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter analysis can accurately predict civil unrest, for instance, because people use certain hashtags to discuss issues online before their anger bubbles over into the real world.<\/p>\n<p>The most famous example of this came during the Arab Spring, <strong>when clear signs of the impending protests and unrest were found on social networks days before people took to the streets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A system called\u00a0EMBERS<\/strong> (Early Model Based Event Recognition using Surrogates) has also yielded \u201cimpressive results\u201d not just in \u201cdetecting events, but in detecting specific properties of those events\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It has been used to predict unrest in South America, forecasting events with 80 per cent accuracy in Brazil and a slightly underwhelming 50 per cent in Venezuela.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Another study showed \u201cimpressive\u201d results in detecting \u201ccivil unrest\u201d linked to the Black Lives Matter group, which formed in America in response to police shootings.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And that\u2019s not all. The researchers found that social media posts could be used to predict the weather, disease outbreaks, future crimes, and the mental health of individual social media users.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers Discover That Social Media Posts Can Be Used To Predict Riots, Revolutions, And Even The Weather Most of us don\u2019t give much thought to what we post on social media, and a lot of what we see on social media is pretty innocuous. However, it only seems that way at first glance. 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