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Facebook has announced which researchers it's working with to measure the spread of misinformation https://t.co/IZ2hk3vNiK
— Daniel Funke (@dpfunke) April 29, 2019
Facebook grants academics access to one of the biggest troves of information about human behaviour online: how its users share links.
— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) April 29, 2019
But it excludes the most contentious data from the run-up to the 2016 US election/the Brexit vote:https://t.co/6HC3NI3yOf
Facebook also recently switched over to a map from a list of US states and no longer breaks out DC—why would researchers want to look at ads being targeting at US politicians???
— J. Grygiel ?️??? (@jmgrygiel) April 29, 2019
Facebook is letting academics check its election homework but not the ones it scored badly on https://t.co/O4oLUezoKt pic.twitter.com/wCST3RJrg2
— kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ (@kadhimshubber) April 29, 2019
Journalists complained about these issues ahead of the 2018 US midterms and were told the API was still a work in progress. Disappointing that they haven't been resolved yet. https://t.co/DX64nSOqkt
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) April 29, 2019
FT: "Facebook is opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 academics from around the world, who will be able to look, among other things, at how the platform influences elections.” https://t.co/4JXlqAm2TI
— Chris Hoofnagle (@hoofnagle) April 29, 2019
❌❌❌@facebook finally released its ad archive API. But the tool meets just 2 of experts’ 5 minimum standards—a failing grade.
— Mozilla (@mozilla) April 29, 2019
As a result, Facebook prevents misinformation researchers from doing their jobs ahead of the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections: https://t.co/r7jZMdMS9c
Facebook opens its data to academics for first time https://t.co/YC9KS4IbBk via @financialtimes
— Pablo Ortellado (@pablo_ortellado) April 29, 2019
More than 60 researchers from 30 academic institutions across 11 countries were chosen to study social media's impact on democracy using Facebook data https://t.co/9uGKh4ZAo2
— Sherry Pagoto (@DrSherryPagoto) April 29, 2019
Facebook has announced which researchers it's working with to measure the spread of misinformation https://t.co/IZ2hk3vNiK
— Daniel Funke (@dpfunke) April 29, 2019
❌❌❌@facebook finally released its ad archive API. But the tool meets just 2 of experts’ 5 minimum standards—a failing grade.
— Mozilla (@mozilla) April 29, 2019
As a result, Facebook prevents misinformation researchers from doing their jobs ahead of the 2019 EU Parliamentary elections: https://t.co/r7jZMdMS9c
New blog post here from Firefox creator Mozilla blasting Facebook's disinformation tools and detection:
— Ben Collins (@oneunderscore__) April 29, 2019
"Facebook’s ad archive API fails to let researchers do their jobs ahead of the upcoming European Parliamentary elections."https://t.co/hSIPS5okhu
Facebook opens its data to academics for first time https://t.co/64UtkxOrFO
— Financial Times (@FT) April 29, 2019
Facebook is letting academics check its election homework but not the ones it scored badly on https://t.co/O4oLUezoKt pic.twitter.com/wCST3RJrg2
— kadhim (＾ｰ^)ノ (@kadhimshubber) April 29, 2019
Facebook grants academics access to one of the biggest troves of information about human behaviour online: how its users share links.
— Hannah Murphy (@MsHannahMurphy) April 29, 2019
But it excludes the most contentious data from the run-up to the 2016 US election/the Brexit vote:https://t.co/6HC3NI3yOf
FT: "Facebook is opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 academics from around the world, who will be able to look, among other things, at how the platform influences elections.” https://t.co/4JXlqAm2TI
— Chris Hoofnagle (@hoofnagle) April 29, 2019
Facebook opens its data to academics for first time https://t.co/mXOOIZEfg0 via @financialtimes
— Fabio Giglietto ?? (@fabiogiglietto) April 29, 2019
Facebook opens its data to academics for first time https://t.co/dV5VI2OU5W
— VEEG Tech (@VEEGTech) April 29, 2019
Facebook is opening up its data for the first time to more than 60 academics from around the world, who will be able to look, among other things, at how the platform influences elections https://t.co/e9czsaqKbz
— Financial Times (@FinancialTimes) April 29, 2019
Facebook opens its data to academics for first time https://t.co/YC9KS4IbBk via @financialtimes
— Pablo Ortellado (@pablo_ortellado) April 29, 2019
Twelve research groups from institutions around the world will be granted access to privacy-protected @Facebook data to study the role of social media in elections and democracy. Introducing the first Social Media and Democracy Research Grant recipients: https://t.co/R6hmPa2pBq
— SSRC (@ssrc_org) April 29, 2019
Looking forward to exciting new project on the success fake news in four European countries lead by @damian0604 as part of @SocSciOne and @ssrc_org grant.
— Cornelius Puschmann (@cbpuschmann) April 29, 2019
Our project: https://t.co/vYUz3grd7w
Full list of projects: https://t.co/HxAfz9yDBP
It's official: we at the @imfd, with research teams from @fcomuc, @icp_uc, @dccuchile, @icsoUDP and @udeconcepcion won not one but two research grants to study the influence of @facebook in Chilean democracy. Thanks @ssrc_org and @SocSciOne! https://t.co/e8qULPJgcc
— Sebastián Valenzuela (@SebaValenz) April 29, 2019
I didn't apply for this grant because I am pivoting towards other work but considering the proven role and impact of FB on elections in Kenya and Nigeria especially, I'm deeply disappointed that no African country is represented here. https://t.co/TiHdtlrV0W
— Nanjala Nyabola (@Nanjala1) April 29, 2019
Congratulations to everyone who won one of these grants from @ssrc_org @SocSciOne and @facebook!
— Thomas J. Leeper (@thosjleeper) April 29, 2019
“The Social Science Research Council Announces the First Recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants” https://t.co/TpnmOyU9ZC
Kudos to the awardees, and to @ssrc_org - this is phenomenal - The Social Science Research Council Announces the First Recipients of the Social Media and Democracy Research Grants https://t.co/7GyXOTkKHw
— Jonathan Metzl (@JonathanMetzl) April 29, 2019
Today is a big milestone--we're announcing the first data grants https://t.co/KSNUrfJxsv. Grantees get funding, access to CrowdTangle & the Pol. Ads API, and soon access to the URL dataset above, which will provide unprecedented data to study misinformation in social media.
— Solomon Messing (@SolomonMg) April 29, 2019
Here are all the @SocSciOne grant winners. These abstracts in particular seem pretty promising. https://t.co/eYF0bIoWAu pic.twitter.com/fblmxRSagL
— Daniel Funke (@dpfunke) April 29, 2019
Congratulations to the grantees, including @davidlazer @j_a_tucker @magdalenasaldan and many others - the eyes of the (nerd) world are upon you!
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) April 29, 2019
More details from @ssrc_org here https://t.co/QnscxKtILi
Incremental progress? "We are announcing our approval of the first group of over sixty researchers from around the world to use [FB data] in a safe, secure, and privacy-protected manner" @SocSciOne writes "The urgency of this research cannot be overstated" https://t.co/GWYurtb3s3
— Rasmus Kleis Nielsen (@rasmus_kleis) April 29, 2019
Facebook’s new ad archive API v1 is better than the fog of information war instilled by microtarged dark posts but has a long way to go to achieve the transparency and accountability it promises. https://t.co/lMnEmrMLg7 by @riptari
— David Carroll ? (@profcarroll) April 29, 2019
one of the ad archive's biggest flaws is the whole "search by keyword" thing. it's also a tipoff that this tool is built for marketers, not academics. fb *knows* how to speak to the former; it's only just warming to the latter https://t.co/tUx4j5Q5Wk
— shoshana wodinsky (@swodinsky) April 29, 2019
I am thrilled to share that we have announced the first set of researchers who are receiving access to privacy-preserving Facebook data through our partnership with @SocSciOne and @ssrc_org .
— Chaya (@cjnayak) April 29, 2019
Our announcement here: https://t.co/4ZVDlNo0G5
Researchers Were Selected in a Facebook-Led Initiative to Study Social Media’s Impact on Elections https://t.co/DerP51qBOL #smm #socialmedia #marketing pic.twitter.com/PgABo9TOso
— Neal Schaffer (@NealSchaffer) April 30, 2019
Facebook opens data trove for academics to study its influence on elections https://t.co/U602v2NOb1
— Evan Kirstel at #WHCC19 #WashingtonDC (@evankirstel) April 29, 2019
#Facebook will allow academics to research Facebook data from January 2017 to February 2019. This means that the 60 academics won't be able to analyse the run-up to the 2016 #USelection or the UK’s #Brexit vote.https://t.co/YtwSte0LrA
— Elena Sánchez (@Sanchelen) April 30, 2019
Allowing myself the slightest bit of optimism - this looks promising. https://t.co/givAokUFR8
— Gavin Wilde (@gavinbwilde) April 30, 2019
Great initial list of Facebook research grants:https://t.co/LBwiCcgHxN
— Matt Grossmann (@MattGrossmann) April 29, 2019
& new data on news sharing: https://t.co/unxjdAi0bI
More than 60 researchers have been granted access to "privacy-protected" Facebook data as part of an initiative to assess the impact of social media on democracy and elections, writes @Kyle_L_Wiggers of @VentureBeat https://t.co/klLgb5PApl
— Privacy Project (@PrivacyProject) April 29, 2019
Facebook lets select researchers access ‘privacy-protected’ data. Read more: https://t.co/BsJu1QWorz @KYLE_L_WIGGERS @VentureBeat pic.twitter.com/lqP3Ur6dss
— BIGtoken (@BIG_token) April 29, 2019
#Facebook grants over 60 researchers from 30 institutions across 11 countries access to 'privacy-protected' #data to 'deepen public understanding of the role #socialmedia has on #elections and democracy...' https://t.co/MFxnw8xM6b via @VentureBeat @Kyle_L_Wiggers
— The Sociable (@thesociable) April 29, 2019
For those of you who bought anything Facebook promised last year, this is a must-read by @Riptari. So many troubling details in here. Good of @Mozilla and others for calling it out. This is how cover-ups work. Plain and simple. https://t.co/A5zHFb5uS6
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) April 30, 2019
“a lot of weak-sauce transparency washing” ?? https://t.co/A5zHFb5uS6
— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) April 30, 2019
Facebook has been accused of blocking the ability of independent researchers to effectively study how political disinformation flows across its ad platform. https://t.co/qvhN9oPfzE
— PEN America (@PENamerican) April 30, 2019
Of Course. @Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform via @TechCrunch https://t.co/S5ZfUAAjNC
— Raju Narisetti (@raju) April 30, 2019
I give quite a lot of comment on Facebook's refusal to give aggregate targeting/demographic viewership data as part of its ad API to @riptari in her excellent and detailed article https://t.co/9pERpJQG7w
— Michael Veale (@mikarv) April 29, 2019
Facebook accused of blocking wider efforts to study its ad platform https://t.co/iX49lrXcA8 via @techcrunch
— toomas hendrik ilves (@IlvesToomas) April 29, 2019