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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by falcolas on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @04:09PM (#16539917)
> being caught red handed would be devastating from a public opinion perspective

For what it's worth, this public opinion backlash has not appeared with other companies: "Of course we're not working on leaked project [x]". "Look at project [x] we're working on!"

Even Facebook's own under-disclosed psychological experiments have been largely forgotten; Facebook has suffered few if any long-term ill effects from it.

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Re:Facebook Really Is Spying on You, Just Not Through Your P... by fjsolwmv on Wednesday March 07, 2018 @08:06PM (#16541427)
The psychological experiments scandal was a nothingburger from the start. Facebook is not an academic research institution. They already operate with user's consent. Every business that engages in advertising or product design is performing psychological experiments.
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