Facebook changes policy to provide political advertising data to researchers
Increasing Transparency Around US 2020 Elections Ads - About Facebook
https://about.fb.com/news/2021/01/increasing-transparency-around-us-2020-elections-ads/
Facebook gives researchers targeting data on 1.3m political ads - Protocol — The people, power and politics of tech
https://www.protocol.com/facebook-1-3-political-ads
On January 25, 2021, Facebook published an article titled ``Improving transparency around US election ads in 2020''. In the article, Facebook announced that it will release a platform called 'Facebook Open Research & Transparency (FORT)' on February 1, 2021. Using FORT will make it possible to use targeting data on more than 1.3 million social issues related to elections and politics. The advertising data included in FORT was posted for three months from August 3 to November 3, 2020.
Academic Resources - Facebook Research
https://research.fb.com/data/#facebook-open-research-and-transparency
On the other hand, in response to Facebook's announcement, The Real Facebook Oversight Board operated by the non-profit organization The Citizens posted, ``New York University was doing the same for you until you shut it down.'' .
NYU were doing it for you until you shut them down https://t.co/DGKXKl1e6q
—The Real Facebook Oversight Board (@FBoversight) January 25, 2021
This points out that Facebook banned the Facebook ad visualization tool ' Ad Observer ' developed by New York University in October 2020. At this time, Facebook told researchers, ``If Ad Observer is not disabled by November 30, we will take further action,'' and was heavily criticized by journalists and lawyers.
Facebook asks researchers to remove 'research tools to visualize political advertisements' - GIGAZINE
According to Facebook's announcement, from February 1, information on 'how much money each candidate spent on advertising in 2020' will be released on the Facebook election page .
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