The next step in our collaboration with Microsoft on differential privacy
A nnouncing new open source software, “SmartNoise, powered by OpenDP”. We hope you find it of use. https://blogs.microsoft.com/ai-for-business/differential-privacy/ .
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Some changes at Social Science One
Social Science One is now housed at Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and is supported by a small endowment, which gives us a little elbow room. Unrelatedly, Nate Persily, after two years of devoting his life to this enterprise and all...
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New Data, New Datasets, New Research Projects
In January of this year, we released the Facebook URLs dataset for scholarly analysis. We are happy to report that we have been able to arrange with Facebook to release an updated version of the dataset, now extending to 46 countries. We have also been...
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Unprecedented Facebook URLs Dataset now Available for Academic Research through Social Science One
Gary King and Nathaniel Persily We are excited to announce that Social Science One and Facebook have completed, and are now making available to academic researchers, one of the largest social science datasets ever constructed. We processed approximately...
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Analyzing Data From Facebook
The URLs Light dataset, which we have released, and the much larger URLs Full Dataset, which will be on its way soon, are protected by the principles of "differential privacy". We implemented differential privacy by adding specially calibrated noise to...
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Public statement from the Co-Chairs and European Advisory Committee of Social Science One
In recent years digital platforms have made independent scientific research into potentially consequential phenomena such as online disinformation, polarization, and echo chambers virtually impossible by restricting scholars’ access to the platforms’...
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Collaboration with Microsoft on an Open Source Privacy Platform
We at Social Science One are excited to share the news of a major new industry-academic collaboration. This is between Microsoft, Social Science One co-chair Gary King and Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science on an Open Data Differential...
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Social Science One Announces Access to Facebook Dataset of Publicly Shared URLs for Research
While the project to facilitate the study of Facebook data to better understand the role of social media on elections and democracy has taken longer to build the privacy-preserving tools than expected, we are now making steady progress. We are pleased to...
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Joint Statement from Social Science One and Facebook
Social Science One and Facebook issue the following statement: “We are grateful for the initial support from the Social Media and Democracy Foundation Funders and the Social Science Research Council to our project. Their efforts over this planned one year...
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Building Infrastructure for Studying Social Media’s Role in Elections and Democracy
When we created Social Science One over a year ago, we promised to give periodic updates on our progress in making privacy-protected Facebook data accessible to the world’s scientific community. As we reported in previous blog posts, we have made great...
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How to think about the Research Data Agreement with Facebook
Gary King and Nathaniel Persily, Co-chairs Social Science One The ambition and importance of what was initially known as the Facebook Election Commission, now Social Science One, is only equaled by the challenges we have faced to establish the legal...
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Request for Proposals for Fast Access to CrowdTangle and Ad Library Data
Last week, we announced approval of the first group of over sixty researchers to use Facebook data to study social media's effect on elections and democracy. Today, we are happy to share two new requests for proposals -- An RFP for the CrowdTangle API and...
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