Controversial Facebook study reviewed by Queen's ethicist
Writing on behalf of 27 ethicists from across North America, 黑料吃瓜资源 philosopher Udo Schuklenk and a team of five co-authors have written a commentary for the journal Nature on a controversial Facebook study.
The study manipulated the news feeds of 310,000 users to feature more content that was deemed either positive or negative by automated software. The results of this study showed that users who were exposed to less positive content very slightly decreased their own use of positive words and increased their use of negative words.
Dr. Schuklenk鈥檚 team believes the study did not violate anyone鈥檚 privacy and Facebook鈥檚 attempt to improve the user experience is consistent with its relationship with its consumers, despite many users鈥 concerns that Facebook 鈥減urposefully messed with people鈥檚 minds.鈥