facebook research
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Sheryl Sandberg: The Teens ‘Consented’ To Putting Facebook Spyware On Their Phones
On Tuesday, news broke via TechCrunch that Facebook ran a sketchy “Research” program involving paid participants who downloaded an app onto their phones that was capable of monitoring virtually everything that they did — including in some cases teens as young as 13, who were recruited via social media ads that appeared designed to keep…
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Facebook Says Whoops, Updates Rules For News Feed Manipulation
A few months ago, the world found out that Facebook made its users into test subjects, showing some folks artificially happy (or artificially sad) News Feeds to see if it affected the emotions in the user’s own posts. The internet was not happy about that. Now, Facebook says it’s updated its research guidelines in response.