Facebook suspend les comptes de ceux qui les critiquent… The Hill reports
Facebook suspends accounts of researchers who criticized the platform, The Hill reports.
Accounts of New York University researchers who had been critical of Facebook, have been effectively cut off from their research into political ads and misinformation on the platform, after their accounts were suspended.
The tech giant says the decision was made because of issues over “privacy protection,” but researchers Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy dispute this saying that Facebook is blatantly attempting to silence their findings.
“Facebook should not be able to cynically invoke user privacy to shut down research that puts them in an unflattering light, particularly when the ‘users’ Facebook is talking about are advertisers who have consented to making their ads public,” McCoy said in a statement.
Facebook suspends accounts of researchers who criticized the platform, The Hill reports.
Accounts of New York University researchers who had been critical of Facebook, have been effectively cut off from their research into political ads and misinformation on the platform, after their accounts were suspended.
The tech giant says the decision was made because of issues over “privacy protection,” but researchers Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy dispute this saying that Facebook is blatantly attempting to silence their findings.
“Facebook should not be able to cynically invoke user privacy to shut down research that puts them in an unflattering light, particularly when the ‘users’ Facebook is talking about are advertisers who have consented to making their ads public,” McCoy said in a statement.
Facebook suspend les comptes de ceux qui les critiquent… The Hill reports
Facebook suspends accounts of researchers who criticized the platform, The Hill reports.
Accounts of New York University researchers who had been critical of Facebook, have been effectively cut off from their research into political ads and misinformation on the platform, after their accounts were suspended.
The tech giant says the decision was made because of issues over “privacy protection,” but researchers Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy dispute this saying that Facebook is blatantly attempting to silence their findings.
“Facebook should not be able to cynically invoke user privacy to shut down research that puts them in an unflattering light, particularly when the ‘users’ Facebook is talking about are advertisers who have consented to making their ads public,” McCoy said in a statement.
