Researcher banned from Facebook beseeches Congress to regulate social media
Researcher banned from Facebook beseeches Congress to regulate social media Laura Edelson wants greater transparency Facebook ads Facebook said that it banned the researchers due to concerns about their browser extension. The tool,called Ad Observer, allows users to voluntarily and anonymously share information about adverts they see. The data revealed that the archive of political ads that Facebook provides to researchers is missing more than 100,000 adverts. The information also showed there are several ad categories that the social network has deliberately excluded from this archive....