Tag: emotional contagion
Facebook released an “update on changes” they have been working on for the last three months. The internet empire faced a lot of criticism for their “emotional contagion” study when it was revealed that nearly 700,000 Facebook users had their feeds unethically and possibly illegally manipulated to contain more “positive” or “negative” posts without their knowledge. “Were unprepared for the […]
In light of the ongoing controversy around Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Study, artist and programmer Lauren McCarthy created a Google Chrome extension that allows you to manipulate your own timeline using the same algorithm used in the study, Beta Beat reports. Facebook Mood Manipulator allows you to adjust the levels of “positive, emotional, aggressive and open” […]
