<![endif] Contact Username: * Password: * Request new password Responsive horizontal ad 1 01.Jul.2014 | SCG Follow @SCGupdates Tweet to SCGupdates It turns out that one of the researchers who ran Facebook's recent psychological experiments received funding from the U.S. Department of Defense to study the contagion of ideas There has been quite a bit of chatter this past week after it was revealed that a recent Facebook outage was the result of a psychological experiment that the company conducted on a portion of its users without their permission. The experiment, which was described in a paper published by Facebook, and UCSF, tested the contagion of emotions on social media by manipulating the content of personal feeds and measuring how this impacted user behavior. Over 600,000 users were used as guinea pigs without their consen...