Facebook Shuts Down Research On Itself
The Lawfare Podcast
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How to Protect Journalists Who Are Studying the Platforms
Journalists need to be able to study the platforms, at the very least independently in the way that laura and damon are trying to. Mozilla is standing up a similar kind of platform for other researchers and journalists to come to with questions they may have about social media. And mosilla will be the kind of intermediary between users and t researchers and journalists, and helping to collect the data in way that is respectful of privacy. The most important case right now in the courts,. though, is one being litigated by the c l uvig. Researchers want to basically perform an analogue to discrimination testing which used to take place in physical wardens.
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