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posted by on Wednesday May 03 2017, @07:42PM   Printer-friendly
from the buy-now! dept.

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.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:12PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:12PM (#503915)

    gain access to tindr somehow

    Is this facetious?

  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:21PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 03 2017, @08:21PM (#503920)

    He means grindr.