Condemn Facebook snooping if you will, but we are all part of a great big online experiment
Wednesday, July 2, 2014 - 09:01
in Mathematics & Economics
So, Facebook has been in the dock after publishing details of a supposedly sinister experiment it oversaw several years ago. It involved monitoring the moods of around 700,000 users based on their posts. The research also established that it was possible to affect those moods by posting positive or negative content in the users' news feeds.