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Official Information About COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook
According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic
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Major Universities are Using Race as a “High Impact Predictor” of Student Success
Students, professors, and education experts worry that that’s pushing Black students in particular out of math and science
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Postmates Workers Scammed out of Their Earnings Are Reimbursed Following The Markup’s Report
The phishing scam targets gig workers, accessing their login credentials and stealing their pay
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How We Built a Facebook Inspector
The Citizen Browser project seeks to illuminate the content Facebook elevates in its users’ feeds
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A growing industry wants to scrutinize the algorithms that govern our lives—but it needs teeth
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Postmates Drivers Have Become Easy Prey for Scammers. And Drivers Say the Company’s Not Helping
Gig workers, who report to a phone app instead of a human, are unusually vulnerable to phishing scams that drain entirepaychecks
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Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook
Data from Citizen Browser shows how rare it is for a post to be called “false”—especially if you’re the president
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Facebook Says “Technical Issues” Were the Cause of Broken Promise to Congress
In January, The Markup published proof the platform continued to recommend political groups to its users, contrary to its statements
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Google Has Been Allowing Advertisers to Exclude Nonbinary People from Seeing Job Ads
Dozens of advertisers instructed the company to not show their ads to people of “unknown” gender, meaning people who had not identified themselves as male or female