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      <title>Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users&#39; Emotions For Science</title>
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      <description>&lt;![CDATA[Facebook Manipulated 689,003 Users&#39; Emotions For Science&#xA;&#xA;If you use Facebook, please STOP also saying you are committed to safeguarding.  Please read this article 1] on [Forbes which raises, yet more concerns about the behaviour of this Tech Giant, who seem more interested in profits than the welfare of users. &#xA;&#xA;1 Forbes Article&#xA;&#xA;Enough said,  users deserve better, people need to be treated like people and not as data sources for exploitation, manipulation.&#xA;&#xA;Tags&#xA;&#xA;#DeleteFacebook,#Joinmastodon,#Welfare,#Exploitation,#Data,&#xA;#MentalHealth,#YearOfTheFediverse&#xA;&#xA;hr&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;table&#xD;&#xA;thead&#xD;&#xA;trtda rel=&#34;me&#34; href=&#34;https://qoto.org/@zleap&#34;Mastodon/a/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://wiki.ircnow.org/?n=Shelllabs.Intro&#34;ShellLabs/td&#xD;&#xA;tda href=&#34;https://joinmastodon.org/&#34;Join Mastodon/a/td/tr/thead/table&#xD;&#xA;center&#xD;&#xA;AI statement : b Consent is NOT granted to use the content of this blog for the purposes of AI training or similar activity.  Consent CANNOT be assumed, it has to be granted. /b&#xD;&#xA;/center&#xD;&#xA;&#xD;&#xA;a href=&#34;https://liberapay.com/PaulSutton/donate&#34;img alt=&#34;Donate using Liberapay&#34; src=&#34;https://liberapay.com/assets/widgets/donate.svg&#34;/a&#xD;&#xA;]]&gt;</description>
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<p>If you use Facebook, please <strong>STOP</strong> also saying you are committed to safeguarding.  Please read this article [1] on <a href="https://www.forbes.com" rel="nofollow">Forbes</a> which raises, yet more concerns about the behaviour of this Tech Giant, who seem more interested in profits than the welfare of users.</p>

<p>1 <a href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2014/06/28/facebook-manipulated-689003-users-emotions-for-science/?sh=4af41a8f197c" rel="nofollow">Forbes Article</a></p>

<p>Enough said,  users deserve better, people need to be treated like people and not as data sources for exploitation, manipulation.</p>

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