# Professor Anindya Ghose comments on Facebook's effectiveness as a crowdfunding platform

1 Faculty News June 21, 2018 ![Wall Street Journal logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/wsjlogo.jpg?itok=5Qt0z3WX)>

Excerpt from [The Wall Street Journal](https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-crowdsourcing-sites-accelerate-immigrant-fundraising-efforts-1529582126) -- "'An average Facebook user logs in multiple times a day…and if \[the campaign\] is right up in your face every time you log in, the probability you see it is high,' Mr. [Ghose](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/anindya-ghose) said. 'So I give a lot of credit to a platform like Facebook for amplifying content like this.'"

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