Celebrated former ProPublica investigative journalists Julia Angwin and Jeff Larson are launching their newest venture, the investigative nonprofit news organization called The Markup, with help from some big donors including Craigslist founder, Craig Newmark. The Markup co-founders Angwin, Larson and executive director Sue Gardner (the former head of the Wikimedia Foundation), are backed by a $20 […]
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Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search results
Google today announced that it is working with a number of news organizations to surface more data from their data journalism projects in its search results. The idea here is to make it easier to discover the data that a lot of these organizations produce and then surface it in an easy to read format […]
View More Google partners with news orgs to show more data in its search resultsYou’ll want to ignore this heart-shattering audio of kids separated from their parents. Don’t.
ProPublica has obtained and released an absolutely heartbreaking audio recording of several children who’ve been separated from their parents at the border.
The nearly eight-minute long video comes after reports that almost 2,000 immigrant children h…
Finally, Facebook stops advertisers from excluding racial and ethnic groups… for now
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Facebook has long allowed advertisers to target users based on race—and exclude users based on race, too.
On Wednesday, Facebook said they’re temporarily stopping that ability to exclude after repeated investigations uncovered how easy it is to discriminate.
The update comes after a ProPublica investigation published last week revealed advertisers can still target housing ads to white people only. That’s damning not only because it violates the federal Fair Housing Act but also because ProPublica already made Facebook aware of the issue back in October 2016. Facebook later promised to step up its enforcement. Read more…
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View More Finally, Facebook stops advertisers from excluding racial and ethnic groups… for nowFacebook’s ad system shown failing to enforce its own anti-discriminatory policy
Results from a new ProPublica investigation suggest the tech giant is failing at even simple self-policing. Read More
View More Facebook’s ad system shown failing to enforce its own anti-discriminatory policy