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Facebook under fire over 'creepy' secret study

Facebook secretly manipulated the feelings of 700,000 users to understand "emotional contagion" in a study that prompted anger and forced the social network giant on the defensive.
     
For one week in 2012, Facebook tampered with the algorithm used to place posts into users' news feeds to study how this affected their mood, all without their explicit consent or knowledge.

Preferential treatment

There are times when the justice system, or to be more precise, judges, need to provide the public with some kind of explanation regarding decisions they take that have an effect on society’s interests.

Finding a balance

The crisis is supposed to have made us mature us as a society and turned us into responsible citizens who have learned from the mistakes of the past.

We know that we assigned the job of governance to many people who turned out to be inept or corrupt – in some cases both.

Work Makes 43% of Bulgarians Sick

Work has a negative effect on the health of 43% of Bulgarians, shows a national survey of the Labour Inspectorate. 

It encompassed 200 000 employees in all sectors. 

Around 40% of respondents said they work in a stressful environment. One third said they have very short deadlines for their tasks and 20% work very fast. 

Michael Schumacher Showing 'Signs of Progress'

Michael Schumacher is "showing small signs of progress" said his agent Sabine Kehm in an interview for the German channel ARB on Sunday evening. 

Kehm issued a statement on April 4 stating that Schumacher was showing "moments of consciousness and awakening", which had been the first news from his family in over a month.

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