News Corp's news.com.au reports on an internal document leaked from Facebook:
The confidential document dated this year detailed how by monitoring posts, comments and interactions on the site, Facebook can figure out when people as young as 14 feel "defeated", "overwhelmed", "stressed", "anxious", "nervous", "stupid", "silly", "useless", and a "failure".
Such information gathered through a system dubbed sentiment analysis could be used by advertisers to target young Facebook users when they are potentially more vulnerable.
Facebook has apologised and says it will investigate.
The story originally appeared in News Corp's The Australian, where it is pay-walled.
Additional coverage:
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:49PM (3 children)
Also part of the business model: apologize for unpleasant behavior, promise to investigate, run script to rename.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:52PM
, and fire the intern who ran the script.
(Score: 5, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:57PM (1 child)
Relevant Supporting Article. [theguardian.com]
The highlights:
The entire article is still worth reading. Don't get shucked by the Zuck, especially if that dickhead thinks he can run for president in 2020.
* Note: Jay Z is not only a tycoon, but another kind of coon
(Score: 3, Funny) by bob_super on Wednesday May 03 2017, @09:09PM
Which one [blogspot.com] is he?