Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit

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Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit

Saying the company failed to make data available to researchers as pledged.

A group of philanthropies working with Facebook to study the social network's impact on democracy threatened on Tuesday to quit, saying the company had failed to make data available to researchers as pledged. The funders said in a statement that Facebook had granted the 83 scholars selected for ...

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