Showing posts with label satirical press release re future Facebook research studies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label satirical press release re future Facebook research studies. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You: An exclusive preview; Slate, 6/30/14

David Auerbach, Slate; Here Are All the Other Experiments Facebook Plans to Run on You: An exclusive preview:
"Facebook and two outside social scientists recently published a scientific paper in which they revealed that they had manipulated users’ news feeds to tweak their emotions. Since then, there has been a growing debate over the ethics and practice of Facebook experimenting on its users, as chronicled by Slate’s Katy Waldman. In response to these concerns, this morning Facebook issued the following press release—although I seem to be the only journalist who has received it. Coming hot on the heels of Facebook’s carefully unapologetic defense of its emotion research on its users, I share the press release as a glimpse of Facebook’s future directions in its user experiments."