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August 2019

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 term have been integral to setting this important work in motion and we thank them. As the organizations responsible for initiating this project and managing the infrastructure for independent academic study and privacy-preserving data access, we look forward to continuing and expanding our efforts.

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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 strides in setting up infrastructure under our new “trusted third party” model for industry-academic partnerships. This work must continue. The future of social science research depends on collaborations between independent researchers and...

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