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Our Facebook Partnership

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Launched in April 2018, the first Social Science One partnership focuses on the effect of social media on democracy and elections, with access to Facebook data. The longstanding study of media effects on democracy and elections has taken on new resonance...

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...

Facebook Ad Library

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As part of this project, we are pleased to announce that we have facilitated making data from the Facebook Ad Library available to the broader academic community for the first time, for projects concerning the effect of social media on elections and...

Request for Proposals: Facebook URLs Dataset

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Before submitting your application, please read all the information below. Applications are processed quarterly, and the submission deadlines are: Q1: 2/16 Q2: 5/18 Q3: 8/18 Q4: 11/17 Overview Social Science One is a new kind of partnership between...

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...

CrowdTangle Data at Facebook

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Please Note: Currently, the Meta Research Applications team is no longer onboarding new users to the CrowdTangle dataset. As part of this project, Social Science One has facilitated access for academic researchers to the CrowdTangle service at Facebook...

How to think about the Research Data Agreement with Facebook

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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...

Joint Statement from Social Science One and Facebook

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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...

How to obtain your Facebook URL

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Log into Facebook Click on your name with your thumbnail image 3. The URL will appear in your URL bar 4. Please copy and paste the link into the email you send to us

First Grants Announced for Independent Research on Social Media’s Impact on Democracy Using Facebook Data

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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...

Social Science One Announces Access to Facebook Dataset of Publicly Shared URLs for Research

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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...

Analyzing Data From Facebook

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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...