LONDON (AP) — British data protection authorities are investigating revelations that Facebook conducted a psychological experiment on its users.

Facebook may have brushed off the furor over a psychological experiment that influenced what users saw in their feeds, but UK regulators definitely havent. According to the Financial Times, Britains Information Commissioner and the Irish Data Protection office ( …

A newly published paper reveals that scientists at Facebook conducted a massive psychological experiment on hundreds of thousands of users by tweaking their feeds and measuring how they felt afterward. In other words, Facebook decided to try to manipulate some peoples emotional states — for science. The research involved Facebooks News Feed — the stream […]