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English - August 09, 2021 09:00 - 15 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.2K ratings
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At this point, it’s old news that Facebook has a misinformation problem. Not just in user posts and comments, but within advertiser content, too. And a research team at the NYU Ad Observatory project has been studying exactly that — misinformation in ads on Facebook — since 2018. But then, last week, Facebook deleted their accounts. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) talks to the lead researcher, Laura Edelson (@LauraEdelson2), about what happened. 

Read Shirin’s full Q&A with Laura

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This episode was made by: 

Host:  Shirin Ghaffary

Producer: Sofi LaLonde

Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey

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At this point, it’s old news that Facebook has a misinformation problem. Not just in user posts and comments, but within advertiser content, too. And a research team at the NYU Ad Observatory project has been studying exactly that — misinformation in ads on Facebook — since 2018. But then, last week, Facebook deleted their accounts. Recode’s Shirin Ghaffary (@shiringhaffary) talks to the lead researcher, Laura Edelson (@LauraEdelson2), about what happened. 


Read Shirin’s full Q&A with Laura


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This episode was made by: 

Host:  Shirin Ghaffary

Producer: Sofi LaLonde

Engineer: Paul Robert Mounsey


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