FTC has criticized Facebook for making “misleading claims” to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying political ads on the social media platform.
Facebook cut off the personal accounts and access of the New York University researchers who had been studying political ads on the platform.Ilana Panich-Linsman / The Washington Post via Getty Images fileThe U.S. Federal Trade Commission criticized Facebook Inc on Thursday for making “misleading claims” to explain why it had disabled the accounts of researchers studying political ads on the social media platform.
Facebook had initially said that the decision was made out of a need for the social media giant to live up to a consent agreement with the Federal Trade Commission. “While I appreciate that Facebook has now corrected the record, I am disappointed by how your company has conducted itself in this matter,” wrote Sam Levine, the FTC’s acting director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection.
Facebook paid a record-setting $5 billion fine to resolve the FTC probe into its privacy practices and boosted safeguards on user data.
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