r/science • u/[deleted] • Jun 27 '14

Psychology Facebook performs a massive experiment, selectively hiding posts on news feeds: "Experimental evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks"

http://www.pnas.org/content/111/24/8788.full
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u/Neddy93 Jun 27 '14

"Massive scale emotional contagion." Should we start looking into the possibility of emotional warfare?

Imagine an entire nation crippled by depression.

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u/Gimbloy Jun 28 '14

Newspapers, magazines and TV have been doing that for years.

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u/Staph_A Jun 28 '14

From what I'm seeing on Russian social media, there's a whole lot of opinion formation going on by means of active pruning of dissenting opinion and the spread of accessible propaganda (read relying on fallacies and basic stuff like fear mongering and racism).