Question

Topics
-Understand moral and ethical theories
-In a given scenario identify related stakeholders, ethical issue, and key elements. and using the decision-making framework.
-Technology related ethical issues and case studies.

Intellectual property
privacy
networking
security
reliability and safety
professional ethics

Case 3

In 2014 it was learned that Facebook had been experimenting on its own users’ emotional manipulability, by altering the news feeds of almost 700,000 users to see whether Facebook engineers placing more positive or negative content in those feeds could create effects of positive or negative ‘emotional contagion’ that would spread between users. Facebook’s published study, which concluded that such emotional contagion could be induced via social networks on a “massive scale,” was highly controversial, since the affected users were unaware that they were the subjects of a scientific experiment, or that their news feed was being used to manipulate their emotions and moods. Facebook’s Data Use Policy, which users must agree to before creating an account, did not include the phrase “constituting informed consent for research” until four months after the study concluded. However, the company argued that their activities were still covered by the earlier data policy wording, even without the explicit reference to ‘research.’ Facebook also argued that the purpose of the study was consistent with the user agreement, namely, to give Facebook knowledge it needs to provide users with a positive experience on the platform. The study lacked key mechanisms of research ethics that are commonly used to minimize the potential emotional harms of such a study, for example, a mechanism for debriefing unwitting subjects after the study concludes, or a mechanism to exclude participants under the age of 18 (another population especially vulnerable to emotional volatility).

i want an answer please

1-what is an primary ethical issue ?

2-what is an secondary ethical issue ?

3-what’s a questions (unknowns, critical to address this problem) ?

4- what’s an ethical question?

5-what is the relavate fact?

6-who’s the stakeholders ? and 7- what’s the stakeholders perspective ( value/right/duties)?

8-what’s a solutions? (way to address the problem)

9- and what’s a solutions impact?

10- Finally decision (Position Statement on Each Identified Ethical Question)

Answer 1

Ans -1) Primary Ethical issue - Emotional Manipulability

Ans -2) Secondary Ethical issue - Effects of Positive and Negative emotional contagion induced via social networks on a massive scale

Ans -3) The activities are still hidden because of data wording policy which doesn't give the explicit reference to research.

Ans -4) What is the mechanism of research ethics to reduce this kind of potential emotional harm.

Ans -5) Population above the age 18 is prone to emotional volatility

Ans -6) Stakeholders - facebook social media users, companies who are in need of this research.

Rights- to manipulate emotions and mood

Duty - to agree while creating account with facebook policy of not including phrase constituent informed consent for research