Friday, January 5, 2018

How Facebook Stymies Social Science

The Chronicle of Higher Education
Henry Farrell
January 5, 2018

What exactly was the extent of Russian meddling in the 2016 election campaign? How widespread was its infiltration of social media? And how much influence did its propaganda have on public opinion and voter behavior?

Scholars are only now starting to tackle those questions. But to answer them, academics need data — and getting that data has been a problem.