{"id":1305,"date":"2016-12-16T11:10:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/?p=1305"},"modified":"2024-07-08T06:06:42","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T10:06:42","slug":"cracking-open-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/cracking-open-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"Cracking open Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1306 size-medium alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-300x199.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of Facebook page with hand icon.\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-300x199.png 300w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-150x100.png 150w, https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Facebook, with 1.79 billion monthly active users, has emerged as the main engine for &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Researchers say they\u2019d like to help Facebook get to grips with its problem. But if you want to work with Facebook\u2019s data, you usually have to become a contractor,\u00a0work at\u00a0its campus in Menlo Park, and agree to the company\u2019s terms on what information can be published. For many academics, whose lifeblood is the freedom to publish, that isn\u2019t an acceptable deal. But some of Facebook\u2019s academic collaborators have sympathy with the company\u2019s caution about what gets published. \u201cThey care very much about user privacy and user trust in the system,\u201d <strong>Clifford Lampe<\/strong>, an associate professor at the School of Information, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/peteraldhous\/facebook-or-closed-book?utm_term=.fvW9rPWrj#.vplZ9Vm9n\">told BuzzFeed News<\/a>. Lampe has collaborated with several tech firms and argued that Facebook is easier to work with than most. \u201cComparatively, I think they do a very good job of putting their research out to the public,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook, with 1.79 billion monthly active users, has emerged as the main engine for &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Researchers say they\u2019d like to help Facebook get to grips with its problem. But if you want to work with Facebook\u2019s data, you usually have to become a contractor,\u00a0work at\u00a0its campus in Menlo Park, and agree to the company\u2019s terms on what\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/16\/cracking-open-facebook\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","_umich_oidc_access":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[60,50],"class_list":["post-1305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-news","tag-facebook","tag-fake-news"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",640,425,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-150x100.png",150,100,true],"medium":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-300x199.png",300,199,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",640,425,false],"large":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",600,398,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",640,425,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",640,425,false],"excerpt-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-200x140.png",200,140,true],"themonic-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-60x42.png",60,42,true],"ioslider-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640-640x300.png",640,300,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",640,425,false],"400x250-crop":["https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/social-network-76532_640.png",376,250,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"News Staff","author_link":"https:\/\/michigan.it.umich.edu\/news\/author\/mitnewsadm\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"Facebook, with 1.79 billion monthly active users, has emerged as the main engine for &#8220;fake news.&#8221; Researchers say they\u2019d like to help Facebook get to grips with its problem. 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