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Facebook And The Ethics Of User Manipulation

Screen Shot 2014-06-29 at 12.11.14 PM A recent, partially Army-funded study conscripted Facebook users as unwitting participants during a weeklong experiment in direct emotional manipulation. The study set out to discover if the emotional tone of a users’ News Feed content had an impact on their own emotional makeup, measured through the tone of what they posted to the social service after viewing the skewed material.… Read More