First Amendment Advocates Want Facebook to Make Exceptions

Advocates for the First Amendment are asking Facebook to ease restrictions on journalists and scholars gathering user data for research. In a letter, the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University asked Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to change the company's user agreement to allow researchers to use fake accounts and automated data gathering tools that are otherwise banned.

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