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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 financial services
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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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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-Discrimination Policy
Such ads, along with other age-targeted financial product ads, may violate civil rights laws, attorneys say
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How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths
Exxon, Comcast, and other companies target people of different political leanings with different ads
Who Sees More Ads on Facebook?
Facebook’s financials showed the company made $84.2 billion in advertising revenue in 2020—its major source of revenue. Facebook sells itself …
Save the Date: The Citizen Browser Project Debrief
Recently The Markup launched Citizen Browser, a first-of-its-kind research initiative designed to audit the blackbox algorithms that social media platforms …
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How We Built a Facebook Feed Viewer
Split Screen invites readers to explore how different people experience Facebook
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Introducing “Split Screen”
A new tool from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project
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