New York Times joins Facebook fray: How a stale press release suddenly triggered media frenzy
It all started as a largely ignored paper about the number of positive and negative words people use in Facebook posts. Now it’s a major scandal. Yesterday the New York Times connected the Facebook experiment to suicides. The story was headlined, Should Facebook Manipulate Users, and it rests on…
It’s worth noting that the actual effect measured was MUCH smaller than the fallout from the fact that the experiment was conducted in the first place.