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Social Media Ethics

Should companies like Facebook be allowed to secretly experiment on their users?

01/09/2015 | Rating NR

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Social Media Ethics

Clip: 1/9/2015 | 7m 56s

Should companies like Facebook be allowed to secretly experiment on their users?

Some social media companies—including Facebook—have run experiments to learn what influences user behavior. Many of these experiments have troubled both social media users and privacy advocates, who worry that this research and use of personal information is unethical.

01/09/2015 | Rating NR

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