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Re:TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorit... by sukilot on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:19PM (#23991126)
That's both mischaracterization and irrelevant.

Seeing posts on Facebook is going to change your behavior on Facebook, whether Facebook studies the relationship or not. Paying attention to that effect isn't sinister.

Re:TikTok's new CEO says company will reveal how its algorit... by exdsq on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:46PM (#23991427)
Is it not? They had to apologise and it got them into quite a bit of heat with an ethics department... Interested to know how it's irrelevant or a mischaracterisation!

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

Edit: original paper https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full