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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
Corin Faife
Data Reporter
Corin Faife was the first data reporter on the Citizen Browser team. He left The Markup in November 2021.
Corin has worked as a reporter covering technology news in London, Montreal and New York. Before joining The Markup, he was a journalist and researcher at WITNESS, where he coordinated responses to deepfakes, synthetic media and disinformation in support of the needs of journalists and human rights defenders around the world.
His work has appeared in The Guardian, BuzzFeed, Vice, Gizmodo, CityLab, Ars Technica, and more. He has also provided citizen journalism training for marginalized groups in the U.K. and in multiple African countries.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Facebook Pledges to Remove Discriminatory Credit and Loan Ads Discovered by The Markup
The Markup’s Citizen Browser project found four companies targeting ads for financial products to specific age groups—a violation of Facebook policy and, potentially, civil rights laws
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Credit Card Ads Were Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook’s Anti-Discrimination Policy
Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say
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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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