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Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology
Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology
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2023-08-24
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Facebook is facing criticism after it emerged it had conducted a psychology experiment on nearly 700,000 users without their knowledge. The test saw Facebook "manipulate" news feeds to control which emotional expressions the users were exposed to. The research was done in collabora tion with two US universities to find out if "exposure to emotions led people to change their own posting behaviours".
Facebook said there was "no unnecessary collection of people’ s data." "None of the data used was associated with a specific person’s Facebook account," the social networking giant added. Cornell University and the University of California at San Francisco were involved in the study.
But some have criticised the way the research was conducted and raised concerns over the impact such studies could have. "Let’ s call the Facebook experiment what it is: a symptom of a much wider failure to think about ethics, power and consent on platforms," Kate Crawford posted on Twitter. Lauren Weinstein tweeted: "Facebook secretly experiments on users to try making them sad."
Meanwhile, Labour MP Jim Sheridan has called for an investigation into the matter. "This is extraordinarily powerful stuff and if there is not already legislation on this, then there should be to protect people. They are manipulating material from people’ s personal lives and I am worried about the ability of Facebook and others to manipulate people’ s thoughts in politics or other areas. If people are being thought-controlled in this kind of way there needs to be protection and they at least need to know about it."
However, Katherine Sledge Moore, a psychology professor at Elmhurst College, Illinois, said: "Based on what Facebook does with their newsfeed all of the time and based on what we’ ve agreed to by joining Facebook, this study really isn’t that out of the ordinary. The results are not even that alarming or exciting."
The research was conducted on 689,000 Facebook users over a period of one week in 2012. According to the report on the study: "The experiment manipulated the extent to which people were exposed to emotional expressions in their News Feed". The study found that users who had fewer negative stories in their news feed were less likely to write a negative post, and vice versa. [br] What’s the attitude of Katherine Sledge Moore towards Facebook’s experiment?
选项
A、She strictly criticizes its behaviour.
B、She doubts its credibility.
C、She favours this firm.
D、She thinks it’ s not extremely unacceptable.
答案
D
解析
推断题。根据题干中的Katherine Sledge Moore可以定位到短文中Based on what Facebook does withtheir newsfeed all of the time and based on what we’ve agreed to by joining Facebook,this study really isn’t thatout of the ordinary.The results are not even that alarming or exciting.可知她没有强烈指责,A项与事实不符,B项在她的话里没法体现,C项不准确,她只是认为这件事没有那么匪夷所思,不代表她赞同脸书这么做。因此,正确答案是D。
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