Facebook wants to know how it's shaping the 2020 elections — researchers say it's looking too late and in the wrong places

Facebook is finally researching how social media impacts elections - but won’t have results until 2021. This is not the first time they have drug their feet.

“It took Facebook nearly four years from when it learned about Cambridge Analytica to identify the tens of thousands of apps that were also misusing data. And though it just published the results of its first independent civil rights audit, the company has made few commitments to implement any of the auditors' recommendations.”