Facebook Graph API restrictions and platform lockdown AI-researched
Dependency: Facebook Graph API
In 2018, Facebook announced major platform changes that limited data access and tightened permissions/app review, causing projects that depended on broad graph access to fail or require redesign.
Affected Artworks
Paolo Cirio & Alessandro Ludovico
Relies on Facebook as data-source. Increased controls reduce feasibility and increase takedown risk.
Fixes & Mitigations
- Workaround: Reduce scope: shift from live friend-graph access to user-consented exports or curated datasets.
- Archive: Preserve as 'performed documentation' (screen capture + datasets + code) when live operation is no longer feasible.
Facebook reduced access to several categories of data and placed stronger requirements on apps (permissions, review, compliance monitoring). This made “social graph as material” artworks harder to run live, especially those relying on friend/relationship/event data or broad search.
Notes
This entry is framed as a platform-policy extinction mode. Future submissions should add concrete artworks with confirmed Graph API dependencies (endpoint + version + permission set).