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In wake of uproar over Facebook’s emotional manipulation study, bioethics scholars say new rules are 'moral imperative'

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 11:09 AM PDT

Using the recent debate over the Facebook-Cornell "emotional contagion" study as a starting point, an international team of research ethics scholars begin mapping the ethics terrain of large-scale social computing research in a new article.

Habitual Facebook users: Suckers for social media scams?

Posted: 15 Sep 2014 09:08 AM PDT

A new study finds that habitual use of Facebook makes individuals susceptible to social media phishing attacks by criminals, likely because they automatically respond to requests without considering how they are connected with those sending the requests, how long they have known them, or who else is connected with them.