For a week-long period in January 2012, researchers at Facebook were trying to directly manipulate the moods of hundreds of thousands of people. The results, published in Proceedings of the National ...

Google and Facebook are expected to become ensnared in a host of private antitrust lawsuits stemming from the government cases against the tech giants. The New York Times reports that more than 10 ...

Catching a glimpse of the puppet masters who play with the data trails we leave online is always disorienting. And yet there's something new-level creepy about a recent study that shows Facebook ...

June 29: Updated with statement from Facebook, from the author of the study, and from the editor of the academic journal that published the study. The researchers, led by data scientist Adam Kramer, ...

Researchers from Facebook and Cornell University altered the contents of Facebook users’ news feeds to test the effects of positive and negative posts, finding evidence that emotions can spread ...

It’s now beyond dispute: Too much Facebook is bad for your emotional health. Study after study has found a direct link between heavy use of Facebook and deepening unhappiness. That could be because of ...

In appalling news: Facebook has been f-ing with some Facebook users' moods — on purpose. Plenty of research has shown that spending too much time on Facebook can mess with your self-esteem and mental ...

There may be no company on Earth more experienced at saying “we’re sorry, but not really” than Facebook. The latest example concerns the company’s now-infamous 2012 psychological experiment on nearly ...