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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
Corin Faife
Data Reporter
Corin Faife is the data reporter on the Citizen Browser team.
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.
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
Citizen Browser
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-DiscriminationPolicy
Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say
Citizen Browser
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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Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations
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Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook last week
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How We Built a FacebookInspector
The Citizen Browser project seeks to illuminate the content Facebook elevates in its users’ feeds
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