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Using Facebook’s Own Data to Understand the Platform’s Role in Jan. 6

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Imagine you’re a journalist and you receive a collection of tens of millions of posts from more than 100,000 Facebook groups. You think there’s got to be a story — maybe several — in that cache. But how do you find it?

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