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Facebook shuts out NYU academics' research on political ads

by Barbara Ortutay
| August 5, 2021 12:03 AM

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network.

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