Facebook has made good on its threat to kick out a group of researchers who’ve been among the platform’s biggest critics.
The Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University has revealed major flaws in Facebook political ad transparency tools and highlighted how Facebook’s algorithms were amplifying misinformation. Most recently, it helped track vaccine disinformation in coordination with the Virality Project, a group that tries to neutralize false narratives spreading on social media.
Despite the obvious benefits of the work being done by these researchers, on Tuesday evening, the company cut the cord.
“This evening, Facebook suspended my Facebook account and the accounts of several people associated with Cybersecurity for Democracy, our team at NYU,” Laura Edelson, one of the
— source vice.com | David Gilbert | 04 Aug 2021