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Twitter announced the details of its new political advertising policy on Friday, and once it goes into effect this month, politicians won’t be able to run false ads on Twitter. But they also won’t be able to run ads that correct the spread of misinformation.
From all too scarce to professionalized, the ethics of research is now everybody’s business, argues Sarah Franklin in the sixth essay in a series on how the past 150 years have shaped science, marking Nature’s anniversary.
Today, we’re sharing additional steps we’re taking to protect elections and prepare for the US 2020 election. Those steps include strengthening the authorization process for US advertisers, showing people more information about each advertiser and updating our list of social issues in the US to better reflect the public discourse on and off Facebook.
We’ve learned a lot about how to make large-scale collaborations around datasets work, and today we’re giving away all of our secrets.
This article is an effort to provide some deep context for the He Jiankui affair and to begin analyzing it. It focuses on He’s experiment, without delving into the broader ethical issues around ‘human germline genome editing’ in the abstract.