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Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit

By Katie Paul

Aug 28 2019 1:33PM

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

Researchers studying Facebook's impact on democracy threaten to quit

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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