Facebook starts researching the influence of social networks on elections

A few months ago, Facebook expressed its intention to study how social networks influence elections, a step was taken after the company’s privacy scandals. Recently, Facebook has confirmed the way in which they will carry out this study, which involves the collaboration of Harvard’s Social Science One.

Facebook, Facebook starts researching the influence of social networks on elections, Optocrypto

It seems that the project Facebook is working on will give researchers and academics access to a huge amount of user data and information. The first of the studies to be conducted will analyze up to 2 million unique URLs publicly shared in 300 million weekly publications.

Of course, the system used by Facebook and scientists has been specifically designed to ensure the privacy of social network users. For this reason, only academics who have passed rigorous selection processes will have access to the information. In addition, all data analyzed shall be anonymous.

In particular, researchers will need to look at how different publications are disseminated through Facebook. To do this, they will have to take into account different aspects, such as the frequency of viewing a particular publication, the way in which it is shared more often (individual profiles or groups), whether users mark it as spam, etc. This is certainly an interesting move, and we will be watching for any new developments in the study.

Facebook, Facebook starts researching the influence of social networks on elections, Optocrypto

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