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With new project to study advanced computing, NSF doesn’t ask major online companies to share secrets but hopes they eventually will

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Princeton University researchers who applied months ago to access Facebook-sanctioned political ad data have pulled the plug on that would-be project.

Facebook is taking action, that appears to be retaliatory, against researchers that are investigating it.

August 4th, 2021 Sundry Photography via Getty Images Before the US election last year, a team of researchers from New York Universitys engineering school launched a project to gather more data on political ads. In particular, the team wanted to know how political advertisers choose the demographic their ads target and dont target. Shortly after the project called the NYU Ad Observatory went live, however, Facebook notified the researchers that their efforts violate its terms of service related...

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