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> 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
by Blikkentrekker 5y ago
> 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.
Behold now the clickbait, that I have made with you.
That is quite a different take than the title.
- btilly 5y agoThe question is whether this is normal enforcement, or whether this is selective enforcement. We don't have enough information to know which it really was, and Facebook has every reason to lie if it was selective enforcement. If this was the Facebook of 3 years ago, it would have clearly been selective enforcement. But they've done a lot to crack down on scraping since. So now I am unsure which it was.
- Blikkentrekker 5y ago> The question is whether this is normal enforcement, or whether this is selective enforcement. We don't have enough information to know which it really was, and Facebook has every reason to lie if it was selective enforcement. Yes, they would have, but that doesn't mean the title does not conveniently omit that part to make it seem more outrageous than the first paragraph already makes it seem.
- andrewstuart2 5y agoI'm with you. This title seems unnecessarily inflammatory in the full context. Definitely a common click-bait tactic whether it's intentional or not.