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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz đź–¤") wrote:
The app used in the study in question was called myPersonality and was banned by Facebook in 2018 after the Cambridge Analytica scandal.
TechCrunch reports that there is no connection to Cambridge Analytica, but the app was suspended because it may have shared info with companies.
![Facebook suspended the app around then, saying “we believe that it may have violated Facebook’s policies.” That suspension has graduated into a ban, because the creators “fail[ed] to agree to our request to audit and because it’s clear that they shared information with researchers as well as companies with only limited protections in place.”](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/112/264/882/376/654/033/original/4ebba00fc0dc19b9.jpeg){kind=link}