Facebook's New Scandal - After Secret Experiments Manipulating Emotions, The Social Network Admits 5 Million Members Are Virtual And Do Not Exist (SAT PAR News Jul 01, 2014) Barely shaking itself off from one scandal of using its members as lab rats, Facebook is still reeling from the outing by a key programmer that 5 million members are in fact virtual, and do not exist in the real world. SAT PAR was able to get an interview with the programmer agreeing to keep their identity secret. "We have this AI room [artificial intelligence] which is locked to only a few people. We have the virtual people sign up and register just like anybody else and start posting pictures and events. Each virtual member is completely unique. The software generates a personality for each member. They exist in a dedicated memory slot. We even gave them work/school and sleep schedules so they mimic real people in every way. There is 5 million different emotional responses to any one event. If a real Facebook member posts an interesting picture, a certain number of the virtual members will respond with different reactions. What is amazing is they even email the help desk. We had to get rid of some that were actually harassing real people and replace them with new virtual members. If we did not have a special hidden ID on these members, you would never know." Early reaction to this revelation is so far muted as many people interviewed are just receiving the news and are in disbelief and speechless.