# Blog Sort & Filters close ## Filters Publish Date expand\_more 2018 (2) 2019 (9) 2020 (5) Search Within Results Search Within Results search ## 16 results Show filters filter\_alt Sort by NewestOldestAlphabetical A-ZAlphabetical Z-APublish Date (DESC)Publish Date (ASC) sort list grid\_view ## 16 results [### The next step in our collaboration with Microsoft on differential privacy ](/blog/next-step-our-collaboration-microsoft-differential-privacy) October 28, 2020 A nnouncing new open source software, “SmartNoise, powered by OpenDP”. We hope you find it of use. . description [### Some changes at Social Science One ](/blog/some-changes-social-science-one) October 02, 2020 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... description [### New Data, New Datasets, New Research Projects ](/blog/new-data-new-datasets-new-research-projects) August 28, 2020 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... description [### Unprecedented Facebook URLs Dataset now Available for Academic Research through Social Science One ](/blog/unprecedented-facebook-urls-dataset-now-available-research-through-social-science-one) February 13, 2020 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... description [### Analyzing Data From Facebook ](/blog/analyzing-data-facebook) February 01, 2020 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... description [### Public statement from the Co-Chairs and European Advisory Committee of Social Science One ](/blog/public-statement-european-advisory-committee-social-science-one) December 11, 2019 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’... description [### Collaboration with Microsoft on an Open Source Privacy Platform ](/blog/collaboration-microsoft-open-source-privacy-platform) September 26, 2019 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... description [### Social Science One Announces Access to Facebook Dataset of Publicly Shared URLs for Research ](/blog/social-science-one-announces-access-facebook-dataset-publicly-shared-urls) September 18, 2019 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... description [### Joint Statement from Social Science One and Facebook ](/blog/joint-statement-social-science-one-and-facebook) August 27, 2019 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... description [### Building Infrastructure for Studying Social Media’s Role in Elections and Democracy ](/blog/building-infrastructure-studying-social-media%E2%80%99s-role-elections-and-democracy%C2%A0) August 27, 2019 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... description [### How to think about the Research Data Agreement with Facebook ](/blog/how-think-about-research-data-agreement-facebook) June 24, 2019 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... description [### Request for Proposals for Fast Access to CrowdTangle and Ad Library Data ](/blog/announcing-rfp-crowdtangle-data) May 03, 2019 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... description - Previous page chevron\_left - [1](?page=0 "Current page") - [2](?page=1 "Go to page 2") - [ Next page chevron\_right ](?page=1 "Go to next page")