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[–] [email protected] 30 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Remember when Facebook unethically ran experiments to see if they could make people sad? We should have hanged the board of directors then.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I somehow hadn’t heard about that. Though I’m also not surprised.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

I read this article when it was written in 2014, and it was the thing that made me delete my account. I was completely disgusted. I remember telling a friend about it the same day I read it, and they didn’t believe me, thought I was peddling a conspiracy theory, to the point that I had to find the article again to be sure I hadn’t imagined it. As far as I know, there were no consequences and no one was held accountable.