Robinson Meyer. Everything We Know About Facebook’s Secret Mood-Manipulation Experiment. The Atlantic, June 2014. URL: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/06/everything-we-know-about-facebooks-secret-mood-manipulation-experiment/373648/ (visited on 2023-12-08).
In this article, author talks about an experiment happened in the Facebook. A researcher in Facebook adjusted and investigated the posts people received and posted. He found that if people received posts with bad emotions. They would also send some posts with bad emotions. For this investigation, I would like to say it did not sent consent to the users. I have studied psychology at high school, and in psychology, researchers need to inform consent to the people they research. So, maybe this is the reason why this research is controversial。