"Efficiency," "art-history majors," "kids who graduate with $100,000 in debt," "the college bubble," the whole rhetoric of crisis and collapse: The public discourse is dominated by sound bites, one-liners, hearsay, horror stories, and a very great deal of misinformation.
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With the uproar continuing over Facebook's manipulation of some users' News Feeds to conduct an experiment on emotions, there are several things people need to understand.
News reports recently surfaced that Facebook made it possible for researchers to
surreptitiously control the posts, comments and photos that about 700,000 users were seeing as part of a psychological experiment.
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