"It’s not clear that Facebook Inc.’s attempts to manipulate user emotion are an ethical lapse, says Patrick Lin, an associate professor in the philosophy department at California Polytechnic State University, where he directs the ethics and emerging sciences group.
In case you somehow missed it, a furor has erupted over news that Facebook has conducted a massive experiment on nearly 700,000 unwitting users But is the outrage actually justified? “I don’t really see a lot of ethical issues yet, given the level of detail that is out there,” says Dr. Lin. "
- Date Published:06/30/2014
- Original Publication:Wall Street Journal