Facebook Is Going After Its Critics in the Name of Privacy

Facebook has brought its might down upon a small but scrappy academic team who've done brilliant work in exposing the company's failures to contain scams, rip-offs, and political disinformation.

Facebook promised it would clean up its act. It didn't. And when the Ad Observatory caught the company breaking its promises, it sought to shut them down. This may be par for the course with Facebook, but it's not something we as a society can afford to tolerate any longer.