Archived First FAKE NEWS, now FaceBook plays with our emotions. (theguardian.com)
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Archived First FAKE NEWS, now FaceBook plays with our emotions. (theguardian.com)
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'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. '
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