Published 3 years ago

Facebook reportedly provided inaccurate data to misinformation researchers

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Facebook provided misinformation researchers with flawed and incomplete data about how users interacted with posts and links. The research group Social Science One had used the data for the past two years without knowledge of a serious flaw. The data only included interactions of approximately half of Facebook’s users in the United States, not all of them.

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The Independent

Facebook gave misinformation about misinformation to researchers

The company said it would update the information but that it could take weeks before that would be finished

3 years ago·London, United Kingdom

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The Washington Post

Facebook made big mistake in data it provided to researchers, undermining academic work

The error resulted from Facebook accidentally excluding data from U.S. users who had no detectable political leanings — a group that amounted to roughly half of all of Facebook’s users in the United States.

3 years ago

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Business Insider

Facebook admits it messed up again

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg started sharing data with researchers in 2018. Three years later, the company admits to a major flaw in the data set.

3 years ago·United States

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The Verge

Facebook reportedly provided inaccurate data to misinformation researchers

Illustration by Alex Castro / The VergeFacebook apologized to misinformation researchers for providing them with flawed, incomplete data for their work examining how users interact with posts and links on its platform, the New York Times reported. Contrary to what the company told the researchers, the data Facebook provided apparently only included information for roughly half of its users in the US, not all of them. The Times reported that memb…

3 years ago·United States

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Techmeme

Facebook says data it provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed

Davey Alba / New York Times: Facebook says data it provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed — More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted with posts …

3 years ago

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