It always amazes me that Facebook runs experiments like this by just picking countries at random to try stuff in. In 2017, they unilaterally changed how the news feed algorithm worked in Slovakia, Sri Lanka, Cambodia, Bolivia, Guatemala and Serbia, just to see what would happen.https://twitter.com/davidmarcus/status/1450447439341580293 …
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The idea that countries should have a say in large-scale social experiments run on their population is foreign to Facebook. In the US, Congress can at least summon an exec or two for grilling. Guatemala just has to take it, whether it's misinformation in 2017 or remittances now.
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Replying to @Pinboard
Basically any big corporation can do this and probably does to some extent.
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Replying to @argparse
Doritos test-marketing a new flavor of chip is qualitatively different from the kind of experiments Facebook runs.
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