> Also I would like an example of something a social media company does that you wouldn't be able to get approval to do on animals.

One possible example is the emotion manipulation study Facebook did over a decade ago[0]. I don't know how you would perform an experiment like this on animals, but Facebook has demonstrated a desire to understand all the different ways its platform can be used to alter user behavior and emotions.

0: https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2014/06/30/32...

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terminalshort 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Isn't this just what every media company has done since the beginning of time? You think the news companies don't select their stories based on the same concept? And I'm pretty sure you would get approval to do something similar to animals given that you can get approval to actually feed them drugs and see how that affects their behavior.

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anonymars 8 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Can you provide evidence that [non-social] media companies have performed research specifically to see if they can make people sadder, similar to what was described above?

	▲	terminalshort 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Turn on cable news for a minute and it's quite obvious that it is designed to make you angry. What difference does it make if they performed research or not?

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intended an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I can speak to the types of experiments done, and media companies never had the same degree of ability, data or talent.

Even something benign and commonplace like A/B testing, was not possible given a physical newspaper.