# Professor Vasant Dhar comments on Facebook's regulations around political advertising

1 Faculty News May 24, 2018 ![Barron's logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031072.jpg?itok=FtY-yu99)>

Excerpt from [Barron's](https://www.barrons.com/articles/facebook-twitter-crack-down-on-political-ads-1527188477) -- "'Can they really get rid of the bad actors without curtailing free speech? It is a fine line,' [Vasant Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar), a professor at the Stern School of Business and the Center for Data Science at New York University, tells Barron's."

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