In a further sign that lawmakers don’t plan stop pressuring Facebook about its digital advertising policies, several top U.S. senators want the social network to provide more information about its decision to cut off a team of academic researchers from studying political misinformation.
Democratic U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar, Christopher Coons and Mark Warner are asking Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to answer a series of questions about the company’s decision to disable access to a group of New York University researcher working with thousands of volunteers to understand what kinds of political ads people see on their personal Facebook accounts.
