When Facebook offered a "rainbow filter" for images, following last week's landmark Supreme Court decision in favor of gay marriage, people joked that it was probably another creepy social experiment.
Other rumors were more substantive, such as Boing Boing's article ("What does Facebook learn about you when you rainbowify your profile pic?") positing that the rainbow profile option was a ruse Facebook's part to lure its users into a "creepy" social experiment and mine them for valuable data: Some rumors were clearly of a trolling nature, such as the one suggesting that sex offenders were obliged to apply a rainbow filter to their social media profile photos. Given the scope of the Facebook rainbow profile photo meme and its rapid spread, a variety of rumors soon followed in the wake of the trend. Subsequently, users across the service (gay and straight alike) began proudly adding rainbows to their Facebook profile images to demonstrate their support for LGBT rights and the Supreme Court's ruling legalizing marriage equality across all fifty states. Hodges) that the Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage with a new "Celebrate Pride" page, through which users of the social network could apply a rainbow filter to their Facebook profile photos. On 26 June 2015, Facebook marked the historic Supreme Court decision (in Obergefell v. NEWS: Facebook's rainbow "Celebrate Pride" profile picture filter is rumored to be a data experiment initiated by the social network to gather intelligence on its users.
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