# Professor Foster Provost's joint research on social media, privacy and advertising is featured

1 Faculty News November 22, 2017 ![NBC News online logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_037262.gif?itok=6hhedDRK)>

Excerpt from [NBC News](https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/facebook-can-tell-if-you-re-gay-based-few-likes-n823416) -- "The study entitled 'Enhancing Transparency and Control When Drawing Data-Driven Inferences About Individuals,' is a joint research material by Daizhuo Chen from Columbia Business School, Northeastern University's Samuel Fraiberger, Robert Moakler and [Foster Provost](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/foster-provost) from Stern School of Business, New York University."

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