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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (PRIVACY Forum mailing list)
Sat Jun 28 20:53:07 2014

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Facebook purposely manipulated news feeds to experiment with users' emotions

(Atlantic): http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/even-the-editor-of-facebooks-mood-study-thought-it-was-creepy/373649/

     "And yet there's something new-level creepy about a recent study that
      shows Facebook manipulated what users saw when they logged into the
      site as a way to study how it would affect their moods."

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If this isn't enough to get you off of Facebook, frankly I don't know what is.
 
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