Facebook Scientist Who Secretly Manipulated People's Emotions: My Bad

The Internet erupted in anger this weekend after discovering that Facebook attempted to manipulate the emotions of hundreds of thousands of people in 2012 as part of an experimental look into the power of its News Feed. Coincidentally, the lead researcher of the controversial Facebook project is suddenly having some second thoughts about the whole thing. Adam Kramer, the data scientist at Facebook in charge of the study, wrote a mea culpa of sorts on Sunday afternoon. In it, he said he never intended to hurt any of the 700,000 people affected by the study, which looked at how one's

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