Sunday, June 29, 2014

Facebook Responds to Negative Reactions to Its Experiment on Users

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The furor surrounding Facebook's decision to conduct an experiment that secretly manipulated the News Feed of some users to study emotion contagion reached a peak this weekend, with many calling the act creepy at best, and downright unethical at worst



Although the editor of the study recently admitted to being "a little creeped out" by the way in which the study was conducted, Facebook itself had not offered any detailed comment on the matter — until now



In a public post on Facebook, one of the co-authors of the study, Adam D. I. Kramer, a member of Facebook's Core Data Science Team, finally responded to the study's critics Read more...


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