Professor Mark Crispin Miller was recently cleared of accusations of not following the New York University (NYU) Faculty Handbook. A student and a group of 25 of his colleagues wanted him fired for encouraging them to research both sides of the scientific debate on the efficacy of mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Masks are mandated…

Professor Mark Crispin Miller was recently cleared of accusations of not following the New York University (NYU) Faculty Handbook. A student and a group of 25 of his colleagues wanted him fired for encouraging them to research both sides of the scientific debate on the efficacy of mask-wearing during the COVID-19 pandemic. Masks are mandated…

WASHINGTON—A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook wrongly used a 2019 data-privacy settlement with the FTC to justify shutting down the New York University researchers’ accounts this…

Facebook has shut down the personal accounts of a pair of New York University researchers and shuttered their investigation into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook says the researchers violated its terms of service and were involved in unauthorized data collection from its massive network. The academics, however, say the company…