This just keeps. getting. worse. Facebook tried to ‘alter people’s behavior’ with hundreds of unmoderated tests

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Facebook’s social experimentation rabbit hole goes much deeper than any of us could have imagined. The Wall Street Journal reports that the controversial 2012 experiment in which the news feeds of nearly 700,000 users were altered to show either positive or negative posts was just one of hundreds that the Facebook Data Science team has conducted over the past several years.

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