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Help Us Investigate Facebook Pixel Tracking
The full extent of how Facebook tracks people on the web is not understood—but you can help uncover what data the tech giant is gathering about you
Angie Waller
Research Manager, Special Projects
Angie Waller manages The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, our custom application that monitors what is being algorithmically broadcast to paid panels of Facebook users in the U.S. and Germany.
Before joining our team, she worked as a media producer and web developer at Data & Society, a research institute studying how technology impacts society. In 2020, she earned an MA in Computational Linguistics from The Graduate Center, CUNY, where she designed machine learning algorithms to classify and analyze online reviews and measure how interface design (like chili peppers) can lead to harm. She also holds an MFA from UCLA in New Genres.
Angie also publishes art books that expand on her research under the imprint Unknown Unknowns. The titles are distributed internationally, including at the Printed Matter and Vancouver Art Book fairs and at institutional libraries like the Whitney Museum and MoMA.
Prediction: Bias
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Millions of crime predictions left on an unsecured server show PredPol mostly avoided Whiter neighborhoods, targeted Black and Latino neighborhoods
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How We Investigated Facebook’s Most Popular Content
We found that Facebook's popularity metric obscures how well ultra-conservative content does on the platform
Citizen Browser
Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform
Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns
Citizen Browser
Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election
Ahead of a national vote this month, Citizen Browser data shows that posts promoting the AfD party appeared more than three times as often as rivals'
Citizen Browser
Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data
The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform
Citizen Browser
How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand
The social media giant's powerful targeting tools appear to be part of Ben Shapiro’s success in growing his audience on the platform
Citizen Browser
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 other demographics
Citizen Browser
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-mask groups
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