[LINK] onlinepoliticaltransparencyproject.org "AdObserver"

[Stephen Loosley]

“Facebook demands academics disable tool showing who is being targeted by political ads”

Published: Oct. 24, 2020  Associated Press

Researchers say the tool is vital to understanding how Facebook has been used as conduit for disinformation and manipulation

https://www.marketwatch.com/story/facebook-demands-academics-disable-tool-showing-who-is-being-targeted-by-political-ads-01603576581

Browser extension analyses of Facebook advertising .. and results

https://adobserver.org/


Who We Are: AdObserver is a project of the Online Political Transparency Project at New York University’s Tandon School of Engineering. You can read more about us here: https://onlinepoliticaltransparencyproject.org/ . This extension was originally developed by researchers from the Algorithmic Transparency Institute, Quartz, New York University, and the University of Grenoble. Technical advice was also provided by ProPublica, WhoTargetsMe, and The Globe And Mail.

https://adobservatory.org/