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NYU Researchers Studying Disinformation on Facebook Cut Off
- dang 5y agoRecent related threads (most recent first): U.S. FTC says Facebook misused privacy decree to shut down ad research - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28082371 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28082371 - Aug 2021 (11 comments) Facebook’s claims about the Ad Observer are wrong - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068359 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28068359 - Aug 2021 (105 comments) Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28063637 - Aug 2021 (77 comments) AdObserver Blocked by Facebook - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28059869 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28059869 - Aug 2021 (46 comments)
- egberts 5y agoso Facebook is asserting that advertisers have more privacy rights than its end-users.
- kook_throwaway 5y agoCorrect[1]. >Facebook is more than willing to sell visibility into people’s lives, unless it’s to tell people about how their data is being used. Being transparent about how ads use people’s data is apparently enough to get banned; in Facebook’s world, the only acceptable usage is to hide what you’re doing from your audience. [1] https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see/ https://signal.org/blog/the-instagram-ads-you-will-never-see...
- calvinmorrison 5y agoMaybe you need to hear this: Delete Facebook.