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Comment by electromagnetic

Just my 2 cents, but I'm going to wager that facebook didn't sufficiently anonymize the data. I'm basing this on the fact that facebook merely skewed the existing data.

I wish government officials would at least get with the 1990's. I'm guessing this was little different than switching between the 'hot' and 'controversial' tabs on a reddit page. No data was changed or modified, just the way it was displayed.

It was AB testing with winks and frownie faces.

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