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Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by vuln on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @08:25PM (#19620464)
Very serious. Where does it stop?

"It has published details of a vast experiment in which it manipulated information posted on 689,000 users' home pages and found it could make people feel more positive or negative through a process of "emotional contagion".

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...

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Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by gotocake on Tuesday April 09, 2019 @09:19PM (#19620821)
That’s not A/B testing, or at least not just A/B testing, that’s a full blown psych experiment.
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Re:U.S. senators introduce social media bill to ban 'dark pa... by rapind on Wednesday April 10, 2019 @01:18AM (#19622067)
But it's really not a one-off. This has become modern day marketing tactics. Guarantee someone gave a presentation today to a bunch of execs about how to manipulate a percentage of your users to achieve [x] goal by lightly "nudging" them.
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