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Facebook, OkCupid, and the Ethics of Online Social Experiments

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We''re All Part of These Experiments. Facebook''s experiment was to figure out whether human emotion was contagious in online social networks. Facebook may have crossed the line, according to James Grimmelmann, Professor of Technology and the Law at the University of Maryland. Instead, they were psychological experiments.