> Facebook has acted on this and intentionally made hundreds of thousands of people fall into a depression, just to see if they could, and then they bragged about it.
That's interesting. Do you have a link to source?
That's interesting. Do you have a link to source?
However, the claim that they made "hundreds of thousands of people fall into a depression" is pretty exaggerated - FB demonstrated it could influence the mood of users via changes to the algorithm, but the overall effect size was small (Cohen's d = 0.001).
I am very critical of FB and this type of research, but don't know if anyone became depressed over the experiment. It's possible, but wasn't demonstrated.
She was being dry witted about tatting stuff, not recommending human testing.
I never gave my consent to McDonald's for putting up a billboard or changing their menu or their recipe.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jun/29/facebook-...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook...
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/30/technology/facebook-tinke...
https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/scicurious/main-result-face...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2014/07/0...
Here's a news article about it (probably).
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/oct/02/facebook-...