
In Conversation: Investigation reveals what Facebook hides about its platforms
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Is Facebook Trying to Improve Mental Health?
Researchers heard from users that this like count was causing them anxiety, an that it basically, in a way, for people to quanify their popularity and compare it to other people. So they start this experiment to hide the liht counts from some users and see if that cuhave made them feel better. And when they took this light count, they found that it didn't really move the needle on improving people's mental health and how they felt about the platform. But facebook does this experiment, they find it doesn't improve things, and yet they decide to roll it out. They say that launching this tool could be a way to signal to parents and to the press the instig
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