NEW: Facebook’s attempt to shutter research at NYU on political ads is just the most extreme example of the increasingly fraught relationship between platforms and academics.
My #longreads on how tech giants both court and crush the people who study them protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
My #longreads on how tech giants both court and crush the people who study them protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
I talked to @LauraEdelson2 of NYU about her legal issues with Facebook, @mark_ledwich about how the NYU case has put a chill on funding into YouTube transparency projects, @gchaslot about scraping YouTube data and @j_a_tucker about collaborating w/Facebook protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
While reporting, Facebook told me Ad Observer violates their terms by scraping/publishing users' data who didn't consent.
That claim shocked me until I realized: the users Facebook was talking about were advertisers whose ads and Pages are already public protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
That claim shocked me until I realized: the users Facebook was talking about were advertisers whose ads and Pages are already public protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
I want to stress that none of this is easy for the platforms who *have* gotten in so much trouble over protecting user data. See: Cambridge Analytica. But that had to do with exposure of private users' data, not ads Facebook is paid to make public. protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r…
And a bit of news: Not only has Ad Observer not shut down (negotiations w/Facebook are ongoing), it's expanding. In the last month, the team began using the browser extension to collect data from YouTube as well. See permissions screen capped a month apart protocol.com/nyu-facebook-r… 
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