Gary King and Nathaniel Persily

A year ago, we developed a new model of industry-academic partnerships and began a collaboration with Facebook to embark on an unprecedented effort to enlist the world’s research community to study social media’s effect on elections and democracy. Today, we are announcing our approval of the first group of over sixty researchers from around the world to use Facebook data for this purpose in a safe, secure, and privacy-protected manner. We have more work to do and...