
A group of college researchers engaged in studying political action online found out their accounts had been disabled by Facebook, who alleges the group were violating terms of service in how they were scraping data.
Facebook Disables Accounts Tied to NYU Research Project – Bloomberg
From www.bloomberg.com
2021-08-03 19:26:22
Excerpt:
Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social network, claiming they are scraping data in violation of the company’s terms of service.
The company also cut off the researchers’ access to Facebook’s APIs, technology that is used to share data from Facebook to other apps or services, and disabled other apps and Pages associated with the research project, according to Mike Clark, a director of product management on Facebook’s privacy team.