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🗓️ 9 August 2021

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

At this point, it’s old news that Facebook has a misinformation problem. Not just in user posts and comments, but within advertiser content, too. And a research team at the NYU Ad Observatory project has been studying exactly that — misinformation in ads on Facebook — since 2018. But then, last week, Facebook deleted their accounts. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) talks to the lead researcher, Laura Edelson (@LauraEdelson2), about what happened. Read Shirin’s full Q&A with Laura Enjoyed this episode? Rate Recode Daily ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ and leave a review on Apple Podcasts. What do you want to learn about on Recode Daily? Send your requests and questions to recodedaily@recode.net. We read every email! Subscribe for free. Be the first to hear the next episode of Recode Daily by subscribing in your favorite podcast app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices This episode was made by: Host: Shirin Ghaffary Producer: Sofi LaLonde Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey Support Recode Daily by making a financial contribution to Vox! bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:35.4	Facebook recently deleted the accounts of three researchers who were studying Facebook.
0:49.3	More specifically, they were studying political ads and misinformation on the platform.
0:54.0	The researchers who were part of the NYU ad observatory project built a browser extension
0:59.1	that helped collect ad data, but Facebook said the tool violated user privacy.
1:04.2	Laura Edelson, the lead researcher of the project, says that claim is categorically false.
1:09.2	I wanted to understand how Laura's research works and what Facebook found so objectionable
1:13.3	about it.
1:14.3	So I called her.
1:15.5	We talked about their research, their data, and what Facebook's decision means for the
1:19.5	project's future.
1:23.5	So hi, I'm Cherine Gaffari, reporter at Recode, and I'm here with Laura Edelson, lead researcher
1:28.4	at the NYU ad observatory.
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