Top Stories published by Cybersecurity for Democracy in November of 2021

Ad Observer over collection incident report

Tl;dr: The Ad Observer team discovered that a code formatting change by Facebook led to Ad Observer’s inadvertent collection of the top public comments on ~200 Facebook ads. None of these comments were seen by anyone other than NYU researchers. The…

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