Leaked documents reveal the special rules Facebook uses for 5.8M VIPs

Enlarge / Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Facebook had a problem on its hands. People were making posts that got caught in the company’s automated moderation system or were taken down by its human moderators. The problem wasn’t that the moderators,

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Facebook eyes “Election Commission” in possible bid to shed political scrutiny

Enlarge / Guests stand next to a Facebook Elections USA sign in the Facebook Lounge ahead of the first Republican presidential debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2015. Facebook may finally be acknowledging

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Facebook is blocking access to NYU researchers and urging legislators to blame – TechCrunch

Facebook closed the accounts of two academic researchers late Tuesday, blocking the ability to study political advertising and misinformation on the world’s largest social network. The company accused scholars of being involved in “illegal scraping” and infringing on the privacy

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