Last week Facebook attempted to censor NYU’s “Cybersecurity for Democracy” program.
The Cybersecurity for Democracy program is a team that focuses on how Facebook and other social media’s political ad programming works.
On August 3, 2021, Facebook, showed off its full 800-pound gorilla physique by attempting to crush the work of two New York University (NYU) researchers, Laura Edelson and Damon McCoy and their tool Ad Observer.
Facebook Vs. NYU and Transparency
Facebook has been cracking down on censorship, with vaccine misinformation and Covid-19 misinformation. The assumption is that censorship mostly affects the right, however, the left is experiencing censorship as well. The Cybersecurity for Democracy project is a liberal project.