A new study by Facebook researchers made critics enraged, despised on the findings of the research saying the new study shapes perception of users.

Critics said that Facebook did the study to shape the perception of the world with the algorithmically-filtered newsfeed.

The research study, "Exposure to ideologically diverse news and opinion on Facebook" was published in Science magazine and co-authored by Facebook researchers Eytan Bakshy, Solomon Messing and Lada Adamic.

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The study's goal is to figure out the influence exposure to perspectives of online networks that cut across ideologies, according to a report by Yibada. Facebook researchers used the data to study and analyze the interaction of 0.1 million Facebook users in the U.S. as there is an increase exposure to civic information, news and opinion in social media.

The reseach conclusion of the study was that the individual choices about what to consume and take had stronger effect, limitng exposure to cross-cutting content which was compared to algorithmic ranking, Yibada reported.

Professor Zeynep Tufekci of University of North Carolina furiously slammed the research findings of the study. Professor Tufekci wrote in Medium, shortly after the Facebook filter bubble study, that the study had to do with "an undisputed, scientifically uncontested and non-controversial fact," Yibada added.

She said that by comparing the individual choice to alogorithmic supression, it is the same with "asking about the amount of trans fatty acids in french fries, a newly-added ingredient to the menu, and being told that hamburgers, which have long been on the menu, also have trans-fatty acids."

Meanwhile, Facebook said that the new study published in Science magazine proves that Facebook is still concern about the individual choices more than algorithms to determine what the users see in newsfeed, according to a report by Fortune. However, critics still in outrage, saying that the study doesn't prove Facebook's concern when it comes to personal choices.

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