Citizen Browser
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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Citizen Browser
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook last week
Citizen Browser
Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users’ feeds
News
Anti-Semitic groups are still flourishing on Facebook
Election 2020
In swing states, Biden paid average ad rates of $34 compared with Trump’s average of $17 in July and August
Blacklight
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data
Banned Bounty
Amazon bans injectable drugs, but enforcement failures have led to a swell of listings for unproven performance enhancing peptides
Coronavirus
Data on more than 800 schools shows big disparities in Florida
Google the Giant
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
Banned Bounty
The online giant bans products related to drugs, spying and weapons, but we found plenty for sale; one of the items bought on the site left a grim trail of overdoses
Locked Out
Computer algorithms that scan everything from terror watch lists to eviction records spit out flawed tenant screening reports. And almost nobody is watching
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