The Chronicle of Higher Education
Steve Kolowich
June 15, 2016
In
2014, Facebook came out as a player in social-science research, and a
controversial one at that. Its “emotional contagion”
experiment, in which the company tweaked the feeds of 700,000 users and
studied how it affected their moods, drew
harsh criticism and put
pressure on the company to apply more scrutiny to its research projects.
Now,
after nearly two years of soul-searching, Facebook has revealed how it reviews
and approves the experiments the company runs on users without them knowing
about it.
