Grimmelmann hammered on Facebook and OKCupid; Facebook secretly manipulated 689,003 users’ News Feeds to research if negative news depressed people enough to post more depressing news and if positive ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Think you’re in control? Think again. This week, OKCupid became the latest company to admit that it has manipulated customer data to see how users of its dating service would react to ...

Remember the controversy over Facebook’s social experimentation, which showed how people’s emotions could be toyed with by changing what they see online? Well, Facebook wasn’t the only site playing ...

SAN FRANCISCO — OkCupid, a top U.S. matchmaking website, regularly mismatches users to test its technology, the IAC/InterActive Corp service revealed on Monday, weeks after Facebook Inc admitted to ...

Back in July, University of Maryland law professors James Grimmelmann and Leslie Meltzer Henry argued to the Federal Trade Commission that Facebook might have deceived its users by running secret ...

OkCupid announced this week that it would scrap all of the usernames on its site and require prospective daters to use their real names instead. Naturally, a bunch of OkCupid users are now worried ...

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