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#19 Jun 24, 2021 Despite Repeated Promises, Facebook Still Recommends Political Groups – Months after our Citizen Browser project found that Facebook hadn’t kept its promise to stop recommen
#18 May 24, 2021 Senator Calls Facebook Response on Discriminatory Ads“Inadequate” – Hello, friends,Last Friday, Facebook responded to a U.S. senator who wanted to know how it prevents d
#17 May 20, 2021 Facebook Still Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups Despite Pledge – Hello, Friends,Periodically, Facebook releases edicts—often in the form of blog posts—on the steps it
#16 May 6, 2021 How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook – Hello, friends,You might realize, vaguely, as that ad for a pair of shoes you clicked on follows you
#15 May 4, 2021 Facebook Pledges to Remove Discriminatory Ads Found by The Markup – Hello, friends,Last week, we published our latest Citizen Browser investigation, which found several
#14 Apr 29, 2021 Credit Card Ads Were Targeted by Age, Violating Facebook Policy – This week, The Markup found advertisers using Facebook’s targeting capabilities to exclude people fro
#13 Apr 13, 2021 Facebook’s Ad Targeting: Showing Different Faces To Different People – Our Citizen Browser project aims to uncover and understand choices being made by Facebook’s rather my
#9 Mar 4, 2021 Official Info on COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook – As we reach one year of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S., it’s abundantly clear that the virus has t
#8 Feb 16, 2021 Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook – All social networks struggle to police for political manipulation, conspiracy theories, and general n
#7 Feb 12, 2021 Facebook Says “Technical Issues” Were the Cause of Broken Promise to Congress – In October, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised, under oath before Congress, that the platform woul
#5 Jan 26, 2021 Lawmaker Questions Facebook on Broken Election-Related Promise – When Mark Zuckerberg told Sen. Ed Markey (D-MA) last October that Facebook had stopped recommending p
#4 Jan 23, 2021 Big Tech Needs Persistent Monitoring – Good morning. Our Hello World newsletter today includes an interview that we think will be of interes
#3 Jan 19, 2021 Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Political Groups. It Didn’t. – You may have noticed flashy ads selling Facebook Groups these past few years (like this Super Bowl ad
