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Facebook curbs research tool due to privacy concerns

Facebook graph search tool
The graph search tool introduced in 2013 allowed users to search for posts and other content.

Facebook has curbed access to a controversial feature allowing searches of the vast content within the social network - a tool which raised privacy concerns but was also used for research and investigative journalism.

The leading social network acknowledged this week it had "paused" some elements of its "graph search," a feature introduced in 2013 which has sparked criticism for allowing posts and other content to be unearthed with a simple query.

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