Facebook "Research" Violated Ethical Principles

Here is an MD's assessment of Facebook's recent "experiment":

The WMA Declaration of Helsinki, “Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects“ defines the parameters for human research. Vague generalized references to “research,” such as those in the Facebook TOS, are completely inadequate for informed consent. And it is universally accepted that the Declaration applies to both physical and mental human experimentation (see The American Psychological Association’s (APA) "Ethical Principles of Psychologists and Code of Conduct").

The infliction of emotional discord on a human being for research purposes without informed consent is a violation of the Declaration, as is the lack of ethics committee oversight. This is S.O.P. for human research. It’s very strict. The paper should never have been accepted for publication in a scientific journal.

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I doubt that any of the big players in social media or Silicon Valley really give a shit about We The People. They make a huge amount of money using things that for all intents and purposes they stole from us in the first place. Now that they apparently also have become whores for the US government, it's time to boycott, divest, and sanction them too.