Facebook totally OK with 'emotional manipulation' experiment on users
Found on The Register on Monday, 30 June 2014
The free-content ad network sparked anger when it emerged its data scientist Adam Kramer gave a green light to trick-cyclists to filter out positive and negative posts seen by 700,000 people to see how they would react.
The Mark Zuckerberg-run company appeared to be suggesting that its experiments with Facebook users were less ethically ropey than they had been in the past.
700k guinea pigs. Who knows what other experiments Zucky did.