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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