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by thatfrenchguy 2728 days ago
> software will be able to notice when you’re feeling down

Facebook-controlled depression, what a dream

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I keep spamming this link, but it's important to be repeated: Facebook already intentionally manipulated emotions of a "small number of users" (700k), proved it was possible, and released a paper on it almost half a decade ago.

https://slate.com/technology/2014/06/facebook-unethical-expe...

Link to paper: https://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788. (It does say 'massive-scale' though)
It's an article about the future, so we don't need to bring up Facebook.
Depressed people are likely to shop to alleviate their depression symptoms temporarily, too.