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Last Thursday, the Electronic Privacy Information Center filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission regarding Facebook’s emotional contagion study.
The privacy center says that the psychological study fails to comply with an FTC consent order from 2012 and violates section 5 of the Federal Communications Trade Act.
“The company purposefully messed with people’s minds,” says the EPIC complaint.
Facebook conducted a study back in 2012
wherein it altered the Facebook news feeds of nearly 700,000 users to
see how they would react to viewing a series of positive or negative
posts. The results were recently published in the
Proceedings of the
National Academy of Sciences by researchers at Cornell University and
University of California, San Francisco.
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