NYU Researchers Were Studying Disinformation On Facebook. The Company Cut Them Off
By: NPR August 4, 2021 Facebook has blocked a team of New York University researchers studying political ads and COVID-19 misinformation from accessing its site, a move that critics say is meant to silence research that makes the company look bad. The researchers at the NYU Ad Observatory launched a tool last year to collect […]
Facebook’s Reason for Banning Researchers Doesn’t Hold Up
By: Wired August 4, 2021 WHEN FACEBOOK SAID Tuesday that it was suspending the accounts of a team of NYU researchers, it made it seem like the company’s hands were tied. The team had been crowdsourcing data on political ad targeting via a browser extension, something Facebook had repeatedly warned them was not allowed. “For months, […]