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This pandemic seems to provide pretty great conditions for conducting such studies, say using Facebook datasets if these were academically accessible.



They are (or were) academically accessible. Remember the Cornell/Facebook study on emotional contagion?

It's not a matter of whether the study could be done. It's a matter of it being incredibly unethical to do it.

Signing up for Facebook is not sufficiently informed consent for these sorts of studies.




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