The 'Experiment' Conducted on Facebook Users Was Fundamentally Unethical
LAB RATS: Experiment
By Ronald David Jackson
Facebook and its cronies (Cornell, and the University of California–San Francisco) violated the most fundamental principles of scientific ethics, especially when it involves conducting experiments on humans: Human subjects 1) must be informed of their participation in a psychological experiment, 2) must provide permission to be the object of an experiment, 3) must be properly debriefed (informed of the nature of the experiment and its fundamental hypotheses) , and 4) must leave the experiment in virtually the same condition they were in before they participated in the experiment. The Facebook experiment passed none of these ethical tests.
In effect, Facebook violated the civil and human rights of hundreds of thousands of its users by placing a "virus" in its newsfeed algorithm during a mind control test of "Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks." Facebook manipulated which friends' posts users would see; showered users with either negative or positive posts to make users either happy or depressed.
Facebook has been manipulating the posts of user for some time now. For example, users see only 7 to 8% of the posts of their "friends" because Facebook blocks or buries the rest for its own commercial purposes.
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Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks
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Experimental Evidence of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks
The full study can be found below: Click the arrow (<) on the left side to view the document without thumbnails.
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