11 years ago
Facebook's Controversial Experiment: Big Tech Is the New Big Pharma
Research in digital media is turning data science into human subjects research. It seems nearly everyone is angry about Facebook’s already infamous emotional manipulation study—most recently, European regulators. A number of solid objections to both the study itself and to what it reveals about Facebook have been raised, but Facebook and a few others initially defended the study by saying such experiments in user-experience design are something they do all the time, just ordinary industry R&D.
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