It’s emerged that social network Facebook conducted an experiment with the help of two US universities into its users’ emotions and the effect of posts on them. The study ran for a week and the site deliberately skewed the appearance of users’ newsfeeds to look at the effect of positive and negative posts. Anger ensued, people were upset about manipulated and were encouraged to close their account.
Facebook Emotion Experiment Causes Outrage
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