"We paused some aspects of graph search late last week," a Facebook spokesperson said. "We're in conversations with a few researchers to learn more about how they used this tool. "Researchers like myself were using social graph to show how bad Facebook's content moderation was," she said. "This may be a public relations move because Facebook is tired of having everyone understand how bad their privacy is. "After being introduced in 2013, graph search drew immediate fire from privacy activists as a "creepy" tool that could enable stalking or unwanted disclosures.Facebook has made changes over the years to graph search and offered users privacy settings limiting what information is unearthed.

Source: thestar June 15, 2019 03:00 UTC