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Facebook Manipulated User’s Moods In Secret Experiment Dahboo7

Tuesday, January 10, 2017 11:16
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Facebook manipulated the emotions of hundreds of thousands of its users, and found that they would pass on happy or sad emotions, it has said.

The experiment, for which researchers did not gain specific consent, has provoked criticism from users with privacy and ethical concerns.

For one week in 2012, Facebook skewed nearly 700,000 users’ news feeds to either be happier or sadder than normal.

The experiment found that after the experiment was over users tended to post positive or negative comments according to the skew that was given to their news feed.

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