When Facebook made users the experiment

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Dr. Dave and Evil Steve work through Facebook's undisclosed emotional-response experiment without pretending the answer is simple. They recognize the company's need to test its product, ask how meaningful disclosure could coexist with a valid study and arrive at the uncomfortable point that users and their personal communications had become the commercial product.

6:13 · Philosophy

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Proposed recording date: 2014-07-05. The exact broadcast date may differ.

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