Facebook ‘emotional contagion’ study burns users

Researchers manipulated the number of positive and negative statuses that nearly 700,000 people say in their Facebook news feeds. It’s legal, but is it right?

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I wonder if Facebook KILLED anyone with their emotion manipulation stunt. At their scale and with depressed people out there, it’s possible.

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