As part of their Citizen Browser project to inspect Facebook, The Markup shows…
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Facebook feed comparison between groups
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Trump’s criminal justice ad spending on Facebook
The Marshall Project contrasted ad spending on Facebook by Trump’s campaign against Joe…
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Readability of privacy policies for big tech companies
For The New York Times, Kevin Litman-Navarro plotted the length and readability of…
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Judging connectedness of American communities, based on Facebook friendships
We talk about geographic bubbles a lot these days. Some areas are isolated,…
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Facebook logs calls and text messages
Woo. Woo. Alex Hern reporting for The Guardian:
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What Facebook and Google know about you
Facebook and Google (among other companies) know a lot about you through the…
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Facebook still allowed race exclusion for housing advertisers
Last year, ProPublica revealed that Facebook allowed housing advertisers to exclude races in…
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Prophet for forecasting with a lot of data
Facebook released Prophet, which is a procedure to quickly forecast with time series…
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Data Selfie: Chrome extension logs what Facebook learns about you
Facebook logs data about you and how you use their application. I know…
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U.S. culture through TV show geography
Map who “likes” television shows on Facebook, by ZIP code, and you get…
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Breaking the algorithmic black box
The general public kind of knows about data privacy issues. But not really.…
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Sans human, Facebook’s Trending Topics algorithm faired poorly
Last week, Facebook announced that it was making the Trending Topics section more…
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Demographics of laughter on the web
There are a handful of ways to express laughter online, and it appears…
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Trust engineers
The most recent episode of RadioLab is on social experimentation and social networks.…
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Inadvertent algorithmic cruelty
If you logged into Facebook the past couple of weeks, you saw your…
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Detecting your face
Sterling Crispin reverse engineered facial recognition algorithms and produced masks that only kind…
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NBA basketball fans by ZIP code
After the popularity of The Upshot’s baseball fandom map, it’s no surprise the…
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Detailed map of baseball fandom
For the past couple of sports seasons, Facebook mapped the most liked team…
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Facebook debunks Princeton study
Researchers at Princeton released a study that said that Facebook was on the…
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Prediction of sexual orientation through Facebook friends
Carter Jernigan and Behram F.T. Mistree found that sexual orientation of an individual…
