Julia Angwin
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Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic Age –
Subscribe to Hello World Hello World is a weekly newsletter—delivered every Saturday morning—that goes deep into our original reporting and the questions we put to big thinkers in the field. Browse the archive here. Hello, friends, I’m sad to inform you that this is my last missive to you. After founding The Markup five years ago, I am departing this newsroom to pursue other projects. It’s been… → Read More
Four Ways to Fix Facebook —
For years, Congress and federal regulators have allowed the world’s largest social network to police itself — with disastrous results. Here are four promising reforms under discussion in Washington. → Read More
Facebook’s Uneven Enforcement of Hate Speech Rules Allows Vile Posts to Stay Up —
We asked Facebook about its handling of 49 posts that might be deemed offensive. The company acknowledged that its content reviewers had made the wrong call on 22 of them. → Read More
Dozens of companies are using Facebook to exclude older workers from job ads
Among the companies found doing it: Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook itself, ProPublica reports. → Read More
Dozens of companies are using Facebook to exclude older workers from job ads
Among the companies we found doing it: Amazon, Verizon, UPS and Facebook itself. “It’s blatantly unlawful,” said one employment law expert. → Read More
How We Are Monitoring Political Ads on Facebook —
ProPublica built software and a machine-learning algorithm to allow Facebook users to send us the political ads that appear on their Facebook news feeds. → Read More
Facebook Allowed Political Ads That Were Actually Scams and Malware
These ads raise doubts about Facebook’s ability to monitor paid political messages. In each case, the ads ran afoul of Facebook’s own guidelines to curb misleading and malicious advertising. → Read More
Facebook (Still) Letting Housing Advertisers Exclude Users by Race —
After ProPublica revealed last year that Facebook advertisers could target housing ads to whites only, the company announced it had built a system to spot and reject discriminatory ads. We retested and found major omissions. → Read More
Hackers Shut Down ProPublica’s Email For a Day. Here’s How to Stop Attacks Like That.
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest. → Read More
Cheap Tricks: The Low Cost of Internet Harassment —
How haters attacked three ProPublica reporters with email bombs and Twitter bots and covered their tracks. → Read More
Facebook's Political Ad Problem Spreads to Europe
German officials are asking questions after illegal and inflammatory political ads appeared on the platform during the country's recent elections. → Read More
Facebook Allowed Questionable Ads in German Election Despite Warnings —
CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to ensure the campaign’s integrity, but the company didn’t take down anti-Green party posts of unknown origin. → Read More
What We Do and Don’t Know About Facebook’s New Political Ad Transparency Initiative —
The short answer: It leaves the company some wiggle room. → Read More
California Regulators Require Auto Insurers to Adjust Rates —
The state changed its approach in response to ProPublica’s finding that minority neighborhoods were paying higher premiums than white areas with the same risk. → Read More
Facebook Enabled Advertisers to Reach ‘Jew Haters’ —
After being contacted by ProPublica, Facebook removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring. → Read More
Help Us Monitor Political Ads Online —
ProPublica launches a “PAC” to scrutinize campaign ads on Facebook. → Read More
Have You Experienced Hate Speech on Facebook? We Want To Hear From You.
Help us investigate how Facebook’s censorship policies actually work. → Read More
Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate
Most tech companies have policies against working with hate websites. Yet a ProPublica survey found that PayPal, Stripe, Newsmax and others help keep more than half of the most-visited extremist sites in business. → Read More
These are the Job Ads You Can’t See on Facebook if You’re Older
It is against the law to discriminate against workers older than 40 in hiring and recruitment. But through a ProPublica crowd-sourcing investigation, we found dozens of companies who bought Facebook ads aimed at recruiting workers within limited age ranges. Some companies said these ads were not representatives of their wider recruitment strategies. Others said it was a mistake, and vowed to fix… → Read More
These are the Job Ads You Can’t See on Facebook if You’re Older
It is against the law to discriminate against workers older than 40 in hiring and recruitment. But through a ProPublica crowd-sourcing investigation, we found dozens of companies who bought Facebook ads aimed at recruiting workers within limited age ranges. Some companies said these ads were not representatives of their wider recruitment strategies. Others said it was a mistake, and vowed to fix… → Read More