> Using data collected through Ad Observer, and also data collected using the transparency tools Facebook makes available to researchers, we’ve been able to hel

> Using data collected through Ad Observer, and also data collected using the transparency tools Facebook makes available to researchers, we’ve been able to help the public understand how the platform fails to live up to its promises, and shed light on how it sells the attention of its users to advertisers. So they exploited the data from the main source of revenue of a corporation and then to use that data to smear that same corporation and then they complain that the corporation do not want to cooperate anymore. This is a textbook definition of blind entitlement. > We can’t let Facebook decide unilaterally who gets to study the company and what tools they can use. The stakes are too high. What happens on Facebook affects public trust in our elections, the course of the pandemic and the nature of social movements. We need the greater understanding that researchers, journalists and public scrutiny provide. If Facebook won’t allow this access voluntarily, then it’s time for lawmakers to require it. Here's the problem the people who want to fight "misinformation" need to realize: they won't be in charge and the loyalty of those who gets to decide might change and those who gets to decide will not be the same people you would place your hopes in. I can delete my Facebook account but I can't delete the government.