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NYU Ad Observatory will testify against Facebook in U.S. Congress hearing today

Usama Jawad — Tue, 28 Sep 2021 05:56:02 +0000

Supported by Mozilla, the NYU Ad Observatory will testify in Congress today, emphasizing the need for better laws for researchers. Its study on political ads was banned by Facebook over a month ago. Read more...

Facebook bans NYU Ad Observatory's accounts for unauthorized data scraping

Usama Jawad — Wed, 04 Aug 2021 06:32:01 +0000

The NYU Ad Observatory project studies political ads on Facebook. Its access to the platform has now been shut down because it breached user privacy by scraping data, despite repeated warnings. Read more...