Facebook manipulated emotions in secret study, users vent on Twitter

For one week in 2012 Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into user news feeds to study how this affected their mood.
Summary
Facebook secretly manipulated the news feed of some 700,000 users to study “emotional contagion”.


A study detailing how Facebook...
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