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Very serious. Where does it stop? "It has published details of a vast experiment in which it manipulated information posted on 689,000 users' home pages and fo
by vuln 8y ago
Very serious. Where does it stop?
"It has published details of a vast experiment in which it manipulated information posted on 689,000 users' home pages and found it could make people feel more positive or negative through a process of "emotional contagion".
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-users-emotions-news-feeds https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
- gotocake 8y agoThat’s not A/B testing, or at least not just A/B testing, that’s a full blown psych experiment.
- rapind 8y agoBut it's really not a one-off. This has become modern day marketing tactics. Guarantee someone gave a presentation today to a bunch of execs about how to manipulate a percentage of your users to achieve [x] goal by lightly "nudging" them.