Facebook sorry – almost – for secret psychological experiment on users | Technology | The Guardian
'The experiment was designed to assess whether more positive or negative comments in a Facebook newsfeed would impact how the user updated their own page. '
'The research would also have benefited from more extensive review by a wider and more senior group of people. '
'Unbeknown to users, Facebook had tampered with the news feeds of nearly 700,000 people, showing them an abnormally low number of either positive or negative posts. '
'Facebook published the results of a 2012 study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. '
'The experiment aimed to determine whether the company could alter the emotional state of its users. '
[–] Diogenes_The_Cynic ago
Old news.