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Shannon McGregor, PhD

@shannimcg
16 posts
2021-09-12
🙋🏼‍♀ ️ @alicetiara @dfreelon @kreissdaniel & I have been working on a project involving this dataset w @MeganSquire0 for YEARS. We applied in 2018, awarded in 2019, finally get data in 2020, & 2021 find out the FB data, around which we based our other data collections - is fucked! https://twitter.com/...
2021-09-12 View on X
New York Times

Internal emails: the data Facebook provided to researchers studying misinformation since 2019 included about half of its US users, not all as it then claimed

More than three years ago, Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook trumpeted a plan to share data with researchers about how people interacted …

2021-03-21
This is a great & important article by @issielapowsky about the struggle of researching social media platforms. Lots of challenges outlined here, but I want to point out another one. These challenges are faced by researchers at very well resourced, private institutions. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-21 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...

@issielapowsky By & large, researchers from less well-resourced institutions do not have the capacity to create & maintain even imperfect tools. So on top of the myriad of challenges described, there are serious issues of inequity when it comes to *who* can research these platforms 2/
2021-03-21 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during … Tweets: @issielapowsky , @...

2021-03-20
This is a great & important article by @issielapowsky about the struggle of researching social media platforms. Lots of challenges outlined here, but I want to point out another one. These challenges are faced by researchers at very well resourced, private institutions. 1/ https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-20 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …

@issielapowsky By & large, researchers from less well-resourced institutions do not have the capacity to create & maintain even imperfect tools. So on top of the myriad of challenges described, there are serious issues of inequity when it comes to *who* can research these platforms 2/
2021-03-20 View on X
Protocol

Facebook's decision to crack down on NYU's Ad Observer highlights the increasingly fraught dynamic between tech companies and academics

Laura Edelson was in a state of panic, and I knew I was a little bit to blame for her freakout.  —  “If this is true,” Edelson told me this week during …

2020-09-26
Google's plan to block all POST-election related ads is a step in the right direction. It focuses on the post-election period - which FB's ban ignores. It is wider in scope and flexible on time (might end after 7 days, but up to re-evaulation). BUT 1/ https://www.axios.com/...
2020-09-26 View on X
Axios

Leaked email: Google informed its advertisers on Friday that it will block election ads referencing “the election, or its outcome” after polls close on Nov. 3

Google informed its advertisers Friday that it will broadly block election ads after polls close Nov. 3, according to an email obtained by Axios.

2020-09-21
My op-ed in @WIRED on how platforms misunderstand political practice, misapply their own vague policies & threaten the integrity of our democracy in the process https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-21 View on X
Wired

Facebook and Twitter fail to differentiate “coordinated behavior” from standard political campaign practices, leading to unclear and inconsistent moderation

2020-09-05
“Postelection, Facebook said it would quash any candidates' attempts at claiming false victories by redirecting users to accurate information on the results.” HOW will Facebook make these calls? Under their current policy, politicians can lie in ads. But not *these* lies? https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-05 View on X
ProPublica

Facebook's ban on political ads in the week prior to the election applies to election officials, who use Facebook to inform voters about the voting process

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power.  Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published.

“Postelection, Facebook said it would quash any candidates' attempts at claiming false victories by redirecting users to accurate information on the results.” HOW will Facebook make these calls? Under their current policy, politicians can lie in ads. But not *these* lies? https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-05 View on X
Axios

Facebook says it will take down a video of Trump suggesting people vote twice in North Carolina “unless it is shared to correct the record”

with significant consequences—for one of the most important elections in recent history. That should not be lost in the dust of who these changes will hurt or benefit. https://www....

2020-09-04
THIS is why transparency around decision making in moderation is so important. This is an astounding case https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-04 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Facebook told employees it deleted an event page for Kenosha Guard but internal docs show it was deleted by the page admin; Facebook apologizes for the error

and only after two people were killed. https://www.buzzfeednews.com/ ... Shannon McGregor, PhD / @shannimcg : THIS is why transparency around decision making in moderation is so im...

One week before? Not after? In either case, this can and will be gamed by campaigns. And I'm not holding my breath here on enforcement. How many times has FB walked back a policy or enforcement because someone powerful cried foul? also 1/ https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-04 View on X
The Verge

Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference

Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation  —  Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …

“Postelection, Facebook said it would quash any candidates' attempts at claiming false victories by redirecting users to accurate information on the results.” HOW will Facebook make these calls? Under their current policy, politicians can lie in ads. But not *these* lies? https://twitter.com/...
2020-09-04 View on X
The Verge

Facebook says it will stop accepting new political ads a week before the US presidential election, as part of steps to protect against election interference

Striking a compromise to prevent election misinformation  —  Facebook will stop taking new political advertising in the United States …

2020-08-29
Google took five days to come to a conclusion to leave up misinformation about voting, which violates its own policies. It sets a troubling precedent about post-election misinformation as well. With other smarties, spoke to @isaacstanbecker for his story. https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...
2020-08-29 View on X
Washington Post

Voting rights advocates say Google declined to remove ads with “active and blatant disinformation” about voting by mail; Facebook removed similar ads last week

Isaac Stanley-Becker / Washington Post :

2020-08-13
ok but like ... what will y'all DO? A set of actionable recommendations from a working group of experts led by my @unc_citap colleague @kreissdaniel & @dlicornelltech @YaelEisenstat https://citap.unc.edu/... https://twitter.com/...
2020-08-13 View on X
Politico

Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and others partner to scenario-plan for the last three months before US Election Day, including slow election results

Google, Facebook, Twitter and other major social media companies are working together to scenario-plan for the last three months …

2019-11-03
good @nytimes op-ed by @sivavaid on political ads. Extreme policies on polar ends from FB & Twitter both point toward the urgent need for the same thing: govt. regulation around the means by which voters can be digitally targeted. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-03 View on X
New York Times

Vetting political ads effectively and consistently at global scale is impossible; Congress should restrict ad targeting to the level of an electoral district

It's not about free speech.  —  Siva Vaidhyanathan is a professor of media studies at the University of Virginia.

good @nytimes op-ed by @sivavaid on political ads. Extreme policies on polar ends from FB & Twitter both point toward the urgent need for the same thing: govt. regulation around the means by which voters can be digitally targeted. https://twitter.com/...
2019-11-03 View on X
CNN

Facebook says it will not fact-check ads by UK political parties and candidates running in December election, but will fact-check political groups like Leave.EU

Facebook's political ad policy under pressure  —  London and New York (CNN Business)A controversial policy allowing politicians …