WASHINGTON : Senator Mark Warner said on Wednesday that Facebook Inc's move to disable the accounts of a group of New York University researchers who were studying political ads on its platform was"deeply concerning."
Warner, chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, said that the action was a step backward. The NYU Ad Observatory project, which received a cease-and-desist letter from Facebook last year, asks people to download a browser extension that collects information about how they are shown political ads on the site.
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