The Mystery of the Facebook Manipulation Study's Military Connection

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New statements from the U.S. military related to Facebook's controversial emotion-manipulation study have further muddied the origin of the News Feed experiment some have called "creepy."

On Wednesday, an Army spokesperson told Mashable that someone at Cornell University sent a proposal in 2008 to the U.S. military for funding. Though the army never funded it, the spokesperson said, that proposal was the same Facebook emotion-manipulation study of 2012 that has caused so much drama for the social network in 2014.