Facebook shuts out NYU academics’ research on political ads
>But Facebook said the browser extension was programmed to evade its detection systems and vacuum up user data, creating privacy concerns.The supreme irony of this statement coming from Facebook. That's your business model lol.For context[1], the 'unauthorized data collection' in this case that Facebook claims is happening is the data about the advertisers, not the participants in the study, who actively install an extension that collects information about what political ads are shown to a user, stripped of personally identifying information. This sounds like getting a political campaign ad in the mailbox, reporting that to a local study and then getting terminated by the mail company for violating the campaigns privacy, that's some real bizarro world shit[1]https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/4/22609020/facebook-bans-aca...