Facebook election interference study delayed over privacy concerns

Facebook’s plans to open up its data vault for researchers to analyze the platform’s influence on elections has run into privacy concerns. In April 2018, the social media giant announced a new initiative to share a database of URLs its users have linked to between January 1, 2017 to February 19, 2019. To that effect, the company had partnered with an independent research commission, known as Social Science One (SSO), to evaluate the dataset and ensure the shared treasure trove