Published 3 years ago

Facebook suspends accounts of NYU researchers who've criticized platform

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Facebook has suspended the accounts of a group of researchers who have been among its biggest critics. The Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University has revealed major flaws in Facebook political ad transparency tools. Facebook felt Ad Observer was a breach of users’ privacy, and issued the researchers a warning in a meeting last summer.

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Yahoo News

Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project

(Bloomberg) -- Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social network, claiming they are scraping data in violation of the company’s terms of service.The company also cut off the researchers’ access to Facebook’s APIs, technology that is used to share data from Facebook to other apps or services, and disabled other apps and Pages associated with the research pro…

3 years ago·Los Angeles, United States

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News18 India

Facebook Shuts Out NYU Academics' Research On Political Ads

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

3 years ago·India

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NDTV

Facebook Sparks Off Row by Cutting Off Ad Observatory Project Researchers

Facebook blocked the research to "stop unauthorised scraping," citing privacy concerns.

3 years ago·New Delhi, India

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Associated Press News

Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

3 years ago·United States

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abc News

Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network

3 years ago·United States

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Irish Independent

Facebook shuts down university researchers’ work on political misinformation

FACEBOOK has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

3 years ago·Ireland

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