Amid privacy firestorm, Facebook curbs research toolBy The Manila TimesWASHINGTON, D.C.: Facebook has curbed access to a controversial feature allowing searches of the vast content within the social network — a tool which raised privacy concerns but was also used for research and investigative journalism. But graph search turned out to be an important tool for researchers, rights activists and journalists. “We paused some aspects of graph search late last week,” a Facebook spokesperson said. “Researchers like myself were using social graph to show how bad Facebook’s content moderation was,” she told AFP. Facebook has made changes over the years to graph search and offered users privacy settings limiting what information is unearthed.

Source: Manila Times June 14, 2019 02:03 UTC