If a professor did this, they would probably be fired - Facebook publishes study about news feed manipulations http://buff.ly/1wTDgRJ
@LucasDailey not sure at this point :p I've seen articles that say both yes and no if an IRB board was involved.
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@LucasDailey but in any case I find facebook's behavior: illegal, no; unethical, maybe; evil, yes. -
@southpolesteve Huh! I might be missing salient details, but it didn’t seem different from the experimentation startups regularly do. -
@LucasDailey deliberate actions whose primary purpose is to negatively affect a user's emotional state -
@southpolesteve Or is a news editor that runs a lot of negative stories evil? They know it will affect people. It doesn’t seem clear to me. -
@LucasDailey@southpolesteve Two wrongs ...
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@LucasDailey also when i tweeted that it was very early. many facts revealed since, but not sure how or if that changes my opinionThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@southpolesteve Check. Do you object to what fb did? imo seemed like a big non-issue.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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