Facebook Bans Researchers Investigating It
Facebook is taking action, that appears to be retaliatory, against researchers that are investigating it. Researchers from New York University have been investigating how political advertising money is spent on the social media platform and shed a light on disinformation. The researchers created a browser plug-in that allowed users to capture ads they saw and post the data to a public database. Facebook has since blocked the researchers, claiming they are breaking the company’s Terms of Service by scraping data, saying so in a blog post: Today, we disabled the accounts, apps, Pages…
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