UK’s top universities received £2.8m worth of funding from Meta last year
Campaigners urged universities to be more cautious in their engagement with Facebook’s ownerBritain’s elite universities are continuing to benefit from multi-million pound funding from Facebook’s owner, Meta, amid criticism over its approach to harmful content, ditching of independent fact checkers and political influence. Members of the Russell Group benefited from a total of £2.8m worth of funding from Meta last year, and £7.7m over the past four years. It includes universities such as Imperial College, which has taken £3.6m from Mark Zuckerberg’s companies since 2021, an amount that has risen each year.The funding ranges from donations classified as “philanthropic gifts” to formal research partnerships on projects at Imperial with titles such as “Hearables: In-ear monitoring of physiological responses” and “cross-modal learning of emotions”. Continue reading...
Campaigners urged universities to be more cautious in their engagement with Facebook’s owner
Britain’s elite universities are continuing to benefit from multi-million pound funding from Facebook’s owner, Meta, amid criticism over its approach to harmful content, ditching of independent fact checkers and political influence.
Members of the Russell Group benefited from a total of £2.8m worth of funding from Meta last year, and £7.7m over the past four years.
It includes universities such as Imperial College, which has taken £3.6m from Mark Zuckerberg’s companies since 2021, an amount that has risen each year.
The funding ranges from donations classified as “philanthropic gifts” to formal research partnerships on projects at Imperial with titles such as “Hearables: In-ear monitoring of physiological responses” and “cross-modal learning of emotions”. Continue reading...
