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Facebook offers to crack open data for eggheads to find out how badly it's screwed democracy

JohnFen

Tell me another one

"will help academics investigate the effect of social media on society without overstepping the privacy line."

Yeah, right. As if Facebook has the first clue where the "privacy line" is.

"Crucially, they will be granted the data they need to answer their questions, which in some cases will be data sets from Facebook."

See? Not the first clue.

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