# 1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment"

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Published: 2026-05-14T06:45:52+00:00
Episode link: https://jimconnors.net/interesting-things-with-jc/2026/5/14/1652-facebooks-emotional-contagion-experiment
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Interesting Things with JC #1652: "Facebook’s Emotional Contagion Experiment" – Facebook changed the News Feeds of nearly 690,000 users to test whether emotions could spread online without telling them first, and the users’ own posts shifted after the feed was altered.

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