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Privacy hurdles thwart Facebook democracy research

Sharing data with external social scientists is proving technically difficult, but researchers aren’t giving up yet.
  1. Elizabeth Gibney
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A pioneering research initiative designed to allow independent scientists to access Facebook data has hit a major snag over privacy.

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Nature 574, 158-159 (2019)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-019-02966-x

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  • Correction 08 October 2019: The original version of this story inaccurately described some of the details of how Facebook shares data with Social Science One. The text has been amended to correct this.

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