> Facebook Inc. has disabled the personal accounts of a group of New York University researchers studying political ads on the social network, claiming they are scraping data in violation of the company’s terms of service.
Behold now the clickbait, that I have made with you.
The question is whether this is normal enforcement, or whether this is selective enforcement. We don't have enough information to know which it really was, and Facebook has every reason to lie if it was selective enforcement.
If this was the Facebook of 3 years ago, it would have clearly been selective enforcement. But they've done a lot to crack down on scraping since. So now I am unsure which it was.
> The question is whether this is normal enforcement, or whether this is selective enforcement. We don't have enough information to know which it really was, and Facebook has every reason to lie if it was selective enforcement.
Yes, they would have, but that doesn't mean the title does not conveniently omit that part to make it seem more outrageous than the first paragraph already makes it seem.
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[ 2.5 ms ] story [ 28.4 ms ] threadBehold now the clickbait, that I have made with you.
That is quite a different take than the title.
If this was the Facebook of 3 years ago, it would have clearly been selective enforcement. But they've done a lot to crack down on scraping since. So now I am unsure which it was.
Yes, they would have, but that doesn't mean the title does not conveniently omit that part to make it seem more outrageous than the first paragraph already makes it seem.