{"id":38571,"date":"2021-08-09T14:32:51","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38571"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T00:33:25","slug":"dems-press-facebook-over-suspension-of-researchers-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=38571","title":{"rendered":"Dems press Facebook over suspension of researchers&#8217; accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senators are pressing Facebook over its decision to suspend the accounts of New York University (NYU) researchers who created a tool to analyze political ads and the spread of misinformation on the platform.<\/p>\n<p>Sens.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kvffwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhvrhsv_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/kvffwbtkplljzbzljrvppjffptjqltlggspkbdqlhvrhsv_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634557141000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHCEvyxPKxh4nbHr5k-de0-7qpeFQ\">Amy Klobuchar<\/a>\u00a0(Minn.),\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xrjsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvrpvbb_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/xrjsknglcddtynydtprcctsscgtqdgdmmbclnjqdvrpvbb_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634557141000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFJf6c687ixJu9WAzP-Csfd7aUbEA\">Mark Warner<\/a>\u00a0(Va.) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ndpjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqydtypr_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/ndpjgcwhkqqnbcbqntdkknjjkwnmqwqzzpkhcrmqydtypr_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634557141000&amp;usg=AFQjCNF5tVepNp65w42011Tzgg2ncnZcPA\">Chris Coons<\/a>\u00a0(Del.) wrote a letter to Facebook Monday asking for details regarding the platform\u2019s decision to suspend the accounts and effectively cut off the researchers\u2019 work looking into the spread of misinformation on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>They underscored their message by noting a letter the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) sent to Facebook\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mnnsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqntqds_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/mnnsmzwgpccljzjcltnpplsspwlvcwckkdpgzbvcqntqds_scjbmmvrvtbkrlmcskvl.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1628634557141000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGVGi4Qd3i2eO2RQZT9QW1DPniLLA\">calling the platform\u2019s explanation<\/a>\u00a0for suspending the accounts due to its agreement to the agency \u201cinaccurate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were surprised to learn that Facebook has terminated access to its platform for researchers connected with the NYU Ad Observatory project. The opaque and unregulated online advertising platforms that social media companies maintain have allowed a hotbed of disinformation and consumer scams to proliferate, and we need to find solutions to those problems,\u201d the senators wrote, according to a copy of the letter shared with The Hill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic senators are pressing Facebook over&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38572,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38571\/revisions\/38572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}