Wow, what an amazingly tone-deaf post. It demeans Facebook users who were offended at the company's actions into simpletons who did not really understand what the study was really about. Sample this:
> Nobody's posts were "hidden," they just didn't show up on some loads of Feed.
How is hiding any different from not showing up?
> And at the end of the day, the actual impact on people in the experiment was the minimal amount to statistically detect it.
Not what your own study claimed.
> I can understand why some people have concerns about it, and my coauthors and I are very sorry for the way the paper described the research and any anxiety it caused.
We are not sorry about the research, but only for "the way the paper described it".
> In hindsight, the research benefits of the paper may not have justified all of this anxiety.
In hindsight, our users are hyperventilating frogs. They should learn how to relax in the nice warm(ing) Facebook waters.
> Nobody's posts were "hidden," they just didn't show up on some loads of Feed.
How is hiding any different from not showing up?
> And at the end of the day, the actual impact on people in the experiment was the minimal amount to statistically detect it.
Not what your own study claimed.
> I can understand why some people have concerns about it, and my coauthors and I are very sorry for the way the paper described the research and any anxiety it caused.
We are not sorry about the research, but only for "the way the paper described it".
> In hindsight, the research benefits of the paper may not have justified all of this anxiety.
In hindsight, our users are hyperventilating frogs. They should learn how to relax in the nice warm(ing) Facebook waters.