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An old Facebook related article - but wanted to raise up given Cambridge Analytica
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-user-news-feeds-to-create-emotional-contagion/#602e837539dcFacebook conducted a massive psychological experiment on 689,003 users, manipulating their news feeds to assess the effects on their emotions. The details of the experiment were published in an article entitled "Experimental Evidence Of Massive-Scale Emotional Contagion Through Social Networks" published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.
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