15 years ago it was celebrated in the media as a “cool inventive cutting edge idea” that Facebook was running psychological experiments on it’s users without consent.

Most of the media I remember from that time was less celebratory and more skeptical. [1] [2] [3]

Do you have some examples of the media celebrating Facebook's psychological experiments? Perhaps you live in a different influence sphere or filter bubble than I do.

To check my centiment, I asked ChatGPT "What was the media sentiment ten years ago about Facebook running psychological experiments on people?" and here was its top-line response:

> Short answer: largely negative — shocked and critical. Journalists, ethicists and privacy advocates framed Facebook’s secret “emotional contagion” experiments as an ethical breach (lack of informed consent, manipulation of users’ moods, corporate research without proper oversight), while a smaller group of commentators pushed back saying large-scale A/B testing is routine for tech firms.

[1]: https://www.wired.com/2014/06/everything-you-need-to-know-ab... [2]: https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/the-ethical-... [3] https://www.yahoo.com/news/facebook-changed-way-experiments-...

Not to derail this, but Apple at the launch event last week. "We estimate that we will send high blood pressure alerts to over 100M users with this feature".

Is that based on ... what? Or has Apple been surreptitiously mining this data on existing users without their consent?

"What size segment of Apple Watch users have undiagnosed hypertension" seems a challenging product discovery exploration, otherwise.