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| Facebook has in sight to unsafe children |
Facebook has been forced to defend internal research aimed at detecting when young people who use the service need a ' confidence boost '.
The 23-page document, first presented by the Australian, was prepared by Australian Facebook executives David Fernandez and Andy Sinn for an Australian bank. It is dated in 2017 and marked as "Confidential: internal only", according to Silicon angle.
Using the internal data of Facebook, he observed 6.4 million users who fell into the categories of "high school students, tertiary education students and young Australians and New Zealanders ... in the workforce."
Facebook detected any amount of feelings, including "stressed, defeated, overwhelmed, anxious, nervous, stupid, foolish, useless and a failure."
On Sunday, Facebook defended the movement. "The analysis made by an Australian researcher was intended to help vendors understand how people express themselves on Facebook," the company said in a statement. "It was never used to segment ads and was based on anonymous and aggregate data."
Facebook argues that the "premise of the article [Australian] is misleading," and that "it does not offer tools to target people according to their emotional state." However, Facebook also admits that this research did not follow the "established process to review the research we conducted."
The news comes several years after Facebook was accused of emotional manipulation when a Facebook data scientist and two university researchers altered the content of about 600.000 Facebook users to see how people could respond to negative versus positive feedback on Facebook. After a certain backlash, Facebook committed to reassessing how the research leads and outlined a new framework that encompasses internal and public work.
In the past year, Facebook has also added several suicide prevention tools to its platform, a component for which it uses artificial intelligence to identify and help people report suicide messages.
The 23-page document, first presented by the Australian, was prepared by Australian Facebook executives David Fernandez and Andy Sinn for an Australian bank. It is dated in 2017 and marked as "Confidential: internal only", according to Silicon angle.
Using the internal data of Facebook, he observed 6.4 million users who fell into the categories of "high school students, tertiary education students and young Australians and New Zealanders ... in the workforce."
Facebook detected any amount of feelings, including "stressed, defeated, overwhelmed, anxious, nervous, stupid, foolish, useless and a failure."
On Sunday, Facebook defended the movement. "The analysis made by an Australian researcher was intended to help vendors understand how people express themselves on Facebook," the company said in a statement. "It was never used to segment ads and was based on anonymous and aggregate data."
Facebook argues that the "premise of the article [Australian] is misleading," and that "it does not offer tools to target people according to their emotional state." However, Facebook also admits that this research did not follow the "established process to review the research we conducted."
The news comes several years after Facebook was accused of emotional manipulation when a Facebook data scientist and two university researchers altered the content of about 600.000 Facebook users to see how people could respond to negative versus positive feedback on Facebook. After a certain backlash, Facebook committed to reassessing how the research leads and outlined a new framework that encompasses internal and public work.
In the past year, Facebook has also added several suicide prevention tools to its platform, a component for which it uses artificial intelligence to identify and help people report suicide messages.
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