https://augustafreepress.com/news/facebook-disabled-accounts-of-researchers-looking-into-political-ad-practices/
Facebook disabled accounts of researchers looking into political ad practices
May 14, 2025 - A Bloomberg report detailed how Facebook disabled the accounts of a group of New York researchers studying political ads on the social network.
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https://www.breitbart.com/tech/2020/10/26/facebook-tries-to-shut-down-nyu-study-on-targeted-political-ads/
Facebook Tries to Shut Down NYU Study on Targeted Political Ads
Jul 24, 2025 - Facebook is urging researchers at New York University to shut down a study into targeted political advertisements on the platform. As one researcher put it,...
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https://www.ksl.com/article/50028514/ksl-investigates-who-is-behind-the-millions-in-facebook-political-ads-targeting-utah
KSL Investigates: Who is behind the millions in Facebook political ads targeting Utah? | KSL.com
Oct 9, 2020 - The KSL Investigators worked with New York University\u2019s Ad Observatory to follow the money, and there is a lot of it being spent to put ads in front of...
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https://www.vice.com/en/article/facebook-decides-to-let-research-project-collecting-ad-targeting-data-continuefor-now/
After Public Criticism, Facebook Will Allow Political Ad-Tracking Project to Continue
Jul 27, 2024 - Facebook has seemed to back down from its threat to shut down an NYU project that is tracking how political ads were targeted.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-instagram-meta-deceptive-political-ads-election
Deceptive Political Ads Thrived on Facebook, IG in Run-Up to Election — ProPublica
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https://www.comparitech.com/blog/information-security/inside-facebook-bot-farm/
Inside a Facebook bot farm that pumps out 200k+ political posts per month - Comparitech
Mar 15, 2022 - Comparitech researchers accessed an unsecured Facebook bot farm used to control nearly 14,000 fake accounts. Here’s what we found.
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https://digiday.com/marketing/princeton-researchers-ditch-facebook-political-ad-project-after-the-platform-used-a-debunked-ftc-privacy-defense/
Princeton researchers ditch Facebook political ad project
Nov 17, 2021 - Princeton University researchers who applied months ago to access Facebook-sanctioned political ad data have pulled the plug on that would-be project.
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https://www.adweek.com/media/facebook-boots-nyu-researchers-who-were-using-a-browser-extension-to-study-political-ads/
Facebook Boots NYU Researchers Who Were Using a Browser Extension to Study Political Ads
Aug 4, 2021 - Ad Observer was rolled out last September to make it easier to search by specific election and state.
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https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/08/facebook-falsely-claims-ftc-forced-it-to-disable-nyu-researchers-accounts/
Facebook blocks research into political ads, falsely blames FTC privacy order - Ars Technica
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https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/facebook-ignore-political-manipulation-whistleblower-memo
Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation
Sep 14, 2020 - A 6,600-word internal memo from a fired Facebook data scientist details how the social network knew about specific examples of global political manipulation...
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https://www.engadget.com/facebook-disables-accounts-nyu-ad-observatory-project-091040346.html
Facebook disables accounts of NYU team looking into political ad targeting
Aug 4, 2021 - Facebook has disabled the accounts associated with the NYU Ad Observatory project.
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https://noyb.eu/en/political-microtargeting-facebook-election-promise-just-you
Political microtargeting on Facebook: an election promise just for you!
noyb filed a series of complaints against several German political parties. The parties had used microtargeting on Facebook during the 2021 federal election...
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https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/10/30/21540443/facebook-political-ad-targeting-transparency-nyu-browser-extension
Facebook challenges political ad targeting research at NYU | Vox
Oct 30, 2020 - The company says it has mostly fixed the “technical problems” that prevented some Biden and Trump ads from running.
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https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-political-ads-malware-scams-misleading
Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware — ProPublica
Mar 2, 2020 - These ads raise doubts about Facebook’s ability to monitor paid political messages. In each case, the ads ran afoul of Facebook’s own guidelines to curb...
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https://theconversation.com/is-liking-something-on-facebook-protected-political-speech-it-depends-82209
Is liking something on Facebook ‘protected political speech’? It depends
Social media is complicating Australia’s implied constitutional right to political speech. Bernard Gaynor’s case could offer more clarity.
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https://sharefoundation.info/en/facebook-is-starting-to-follow-electoral-and-political-advertising-in-the-balkans/
Facebook is starting to follow electoral and political advertising in the Balkans - SHARE Fondacija
Feb 2, 2025 - Facebook has announced that it will expand its transparency system and confirmation of authenticity of ads about elections and politics starting from...
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https://www.politico.eu/article/facebook-political-ads-problem-solution/
Facebook still has a problem with political ads. Now politicians want to solve it. – POLITICO
Dec 1, 2020 - The failure to provide data has opened up the company to greater regulatory oversight.
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https://www.futurity.org/tool-facebook-political-ads-spending-transparency-2444492/
Tool reveals top spenders on Facebook political ads - Futurity
Sep 23, 2020 - A newly developed tool aims to make spending on political ads on Facebook much more transparent in the run up to election 2020.
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https://www.newsguardtech.com/misinformation-monitor/october-2022/
Dark Money Political Ads Proliferate on Facebook and Instagram Ahead of the U.S. Midterms, Enabled...
Jun 11, 2024 - “Pink slime” newsrooms secretly backed by partisan donors are spending big on Facebook and Instagram ads in battleground states, taking advantage of the...
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https://www.makeuseof.com/meta-bans-political-ads-facebook-week-of-election/
You Won't Get Political Ads on Facebook for the Rest of the Week
Meta is extending its restrictions on new political ads beyond the end of election day today, November 5th, on Facebook and Instagram.
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https://www.rappler.com/technology/social-media/facebook-disables-new-york-university-accounts-studying-political-ads-platform/
Facebook disables New York University accounts studying political ads on platform
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https://securityboulevard.com/2022/12/usenix-security-22-an-audit-of-facebooks-political-ad-policy-enforcement/
USENIX Security '22 - An Audit of Facebook's Political Ad Policy Enforcement - Security...
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