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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
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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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Senator Calls Facebook Response on Discriminatory Ads“Inadequate”
The exchange followed a Markup report showing Facebook allowed targeting by age for financialservices
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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-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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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
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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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Split Screen: How Different Are Americans’ Facebook Feeds?
Snapshots from the Facebook feeds of our Citizen Browser panelists illuminate how Facebook’s recommendation algorithm siloes information on the platform.
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