Top 10 questions for Congressional hearings with Facebook leadership:
Values: What role does Facebook have in supporting our Western values in foreign contexts?
Values: What role does Facebook have in supporting our Western values in foreign contexts?
Corporate responsibility: When Facebook’s apps and underlying data practices enable and encourage computational propaganda and the targeting of coercive/deceptive content to vulnerable individuals, is Facebook responsible for the impact of those campaigns?
Information security: Does Facebook know all parties who scraped data on Americans, and where that data is now? Does Facebook allow for individual targeting on their platform?
Why did Facebook change its API policies in 2015?
Why did Facebook change its API policies in 2015?
Information operations: Beyond promoted content and advertising, what are the methods of conducting mass influence campaigns and computational propaganda via Facebook?
Role of Facebook employees: What assistance do Facebook employees embedded with advertising clients provide, and does this assistance help clients like Cambridge Analytica/SCL bypass security protocols? Do Facebook employees advise ‘black PR’ campaigns on targeting?
2016 elections: Were the Trump campaign, Cambridge Analytica, or Giles-Parscale able to purchase media or advertising on Facebook during the 2016 elections at rates different from other political campaigns or political action committees?
Russia/2016 elections: Did any FB employees provide support to the Internet Research Agency or any other business/agency in Russia targeting content to American citizens?
Did Facebook delete data related to Russian information operations conducted against American citizens? Will it agree to make all of this data/content available for researchers?
Does Facebook have copies of data uploaded to “custom audiences” by any Russian entity?
Does Facebook have copies of data uploaded to “custom audiences” by any Russian entity?
Working with state actors: For legal or reputational reasons, has Facebook ever denied assistance to the United States government? Has Facebook ever provided assistance or data to foreign governments — including Russia or China — that it has denied to the US?
Russian data arrangements: What data does Facebook make available from Facebook, Instagram, and Whatsapp to the Russian state agency Roskomnadzor or other Russian state agencies? Is this data only from accounts located in Russia, or does it include Facebook’s global data?
Evaluation: What kind of research and evaluation has Facebook conducted or funded on the effectiveness of influence campaigns or advertising conducted via its platform?
