Facebook said it’s preparing to launch a new application programming interface (API) designed specifically for access by the research community. The API was announced during Facebook’s F8 developer conference today, and is meant to address issues that arose from changes made to Facebook’s platform in 2018 following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. That event forced the company to re-evaluate the access developers had to its user data.
Over the past three years, Facebook says it has deprecated thousands of APIs to reduce the risk of future data misuse and breaches.
It also renewed its agreements with developers on …
