Responding to calls for regulations requiring access to data, Meta said in a statement to Nature that the company is committed to “further transparency”, but privacy obligations to its users prevent the company from making raw data available to external researchers. Meta said that it hopes that the results of the research will “help policymakers as they shape the rules of the road for the internet — for the benefit of our democracy, and society as a whole”.
doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-023-02420-z