Facebook Experiments

Join host Ava Grey as she exposes Facebook's secret psychological experiments that manipulated nearly 700,000 users without consent. Discover how social media platforms engineer your emotions, exploit your data, and run behavioral experiments while you scroll. This podcast reveals Big Tech's hidden control mechanisms and will permanently change how you view your feed.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Host Ava Grey examines Facebook's 2009 granular privacy controls and research showing privacy-conscious users paradoxically increased public sharing after gaining per-post settings. Carnegie Mellon studies tracked thousands of users over six years, revealing how perceived control decreased actual privacy while expanding data exposure to advertisers, apps, and the platform itself.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Ava Grey dissects the 2012 Facebook emotional contagion study, where 689,000 users became unwitting subjects in a psychological experiment. She examines how institutional gaps—Facebook's retroactively updated policies, Cornell's IRB disclaiming jurisdiction, and regulatory inaction—created a consent void that allowed mass manipulation without accountability, revealing the architecture of modern platform power.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.

Join host Ava Grey as she examines Facebook's controversial 2012 emotional contagion study, where 689,003 users had their News Feeds algorithmically manipulated without their knowledge. We explore the consent failures, institutional complicity, and ethical questions raised when a platform company conducted psychological experiments on its users.Loved this episode? Discover more original shows from the Quiet Please Network at QuietPlease.ai, explore our curated favorites here amzn.to/42YoQGI, and catch just a slice of our AI hosts in action on Instagram at instagram.com/claredelish and YouTube at youtube.com/@DIYHOMEGARDENTVThis content was created in partnership and with the help of Artificial Intelligence AIThis episode includes AI-generated content.