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U.K. investigates Facebook news feed experiment
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/07/02/uk-facebook-news-feed-investigation/12039429/SAN FRANCISCO -- British regulators are investigating a psychological experiment Facebook conducted on 700,000 unsuspecting users.
The regulators are working with data protection authorities in Ireland, headquarters of Facebook's European operations.
They want to know if any British citizens were subjects in the controversial experiment. They are also probing whether the data gathered in the experiment maintained the anonymity of users.
The Facebook experiment was conducted for one week in 2012. It manipulated the content users saw in their news feeds to see if emotions could be spread. Some users saw positive updates from friends, others saw negative updates.
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