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29 jun. 2014

Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for psychology experiment

What’s amazing is they’re proud enough to publish it.

Facebook tinkered with users’ feeds for a massive psychology experiment

Scientists at Facebook have published a paper showing that they manipulated the content seen by more than 600,000 users in an attempt to determine whether this would affect their emotional state. The paper, “Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks,” was published in The…

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