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Facebook Got Rid of Racial Ad Categories. Or Did It?
Our Citizen Browser project found an array of proxies through which advertisers can target Black Facebook users, among otherdemographics
Angie Waller
Citizen Browser Project Manager
Angie Waller is the technical coordinator on the Citizen Browser team and is an artist and designer living in New York City.
Angie uses data mining to explore how language is influenced by technology. Her projects reverse-engineer everyday systems such as content moderation and search optimization to uncover strange and unsettling phenomena. Angie earned her MFA in fine arts from UCLA and MA in computational linguistics from The Graduate Center, CUNY.
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After Repeatedly Promising Not to, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users
The company announced the policy as a way to stop spreading divisive content
Citizen Browser
Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups. It Didn’t
As COVID-19 surged, the social media company pointed users to all sorts of anti-vaccine and anti-maskgroups
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How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook
We found drug ads targeted at users interested in everything from bourbon to therapy
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Credit Card Ads Were Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-DiscriminationPolicy
Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say
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How We Built a Facebook Feed Viewer
Split Screen invites readers to explore how different people experienceFacebook
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Introducing “Split Screen”
A new tool from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project
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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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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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Lawmaker Questions Facebook on Broken Election-RelatedPromise
Following an investigation by The Markup, Sen. Ed Markey is asking for answers on why Facebook failed to stop recommending politicalgroups
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