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Is Social Science One related to Crimson Hexagon?

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Social Science One is not affiliated with Crimson Hexagon. Gary King, co-chair of Social Science One, co-founded Crimson Hexagon, a social media analytics company, based on his research at Harvard University. Previously, he was chair of the Crimson...

Where's the Election Commission, the Election Research Commission, the Research Commission, the thing Facebook is doing with academics, etc.?

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The organization now called Social Science One was first announced on April 9, 2018 when “A New Model of Industry-Academic Partnerships” was released. Our effort has been referred to by these and other names by Facebook and us all along the way. Given...

Is Social Science One independent of Facebook?

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Facebook is committed to partnering with Social Science One to further the broader goal of studying the impact of social media on elections and democracy. Facebook is building a dedicated internal team to work with the commission, and academic...

How were members of the commission chosen?

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Facebook and eight ideologically diverse nonprofit foundations together chose Gary King and Nathaniel Persily as co-chairs and then the co-chairs chose other members. King and Persily developed the model that led to this partnership, and each have long...

Are there other ways academics can work with Facebook?

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Although the partnership made possible by Social Science One is Facebook's largest engagement with the academic community, the company has long had other ways of interacting with academics. Most of these are for purposes more closely related to the...

How will researchers find out about opportunities to participate in the Facebook partnership?

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All information will be posted at SocialScience.One, with notifications on Twitter and Facebook. Researchers can also sign up for our mailing list. Social Science One will release regular RFI’s (requests for information) and RFP’s (requests for proposals)...

Are the researchers precluded from profiting in any way from their findings – whether as consultants or as authors of non-academic articles or books? How are their activities going to be monitored to ensure they don’t break the rules?

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The academic researchers chosen for Social Science One projects will have full freedom to publish their findings, without review by the companies whose data they study. Academics will be prohibited from patenting research findings. All papers that come...

Are there any requirements that researchers use the Peer Pre-Review process?

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The peer pre-review service is in its early stages. Our aim is to make it valuable and always improving so that funded researchers will actively want to use it.

How long will researchers have to publish their results?

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Timing is up to the researchers. They have plenty of incentive to get rigorous research written and published as soon as possible. In addition, we will be giving grants to multiple researchers analyzing the same data, and so they have plenty of incentives...

What's "the Commission"?

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"The commission" is the "trusted third party mentioned above” In the case of the Facebook partnership, the commission is composed of (a) Gary King and Nathaniel Persily as co-chairs, acting like editors of a scholarly journal and (b) other members...