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Pixel Hunt

Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You

The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook

April 28, 2022 08:00 ET

Show Your Work Pixel Hunt
How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector

The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet

Show Your Work Citizen Browser
How We Investigated Facebook’s Most Popular Content

We found that Facebook's popularity metric obscures how well ultra-conservative content does on the platform

Citizen Browser

Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform

Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns

Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election

Ahead of a national vote this month, Citizen Browser data shows that posts promoting the AfD party appeared more than three times as often as rivals'

Facebook Rolls Out News Feed Change That Blocks Watchdogs from Gathering Data

The tweak, which targets the code in accessibility features for visually impaired users, drew ire from researchers and those who monitor the platform

How The Daily Wire Uses Facebook’s Targeted Advertising to Build Its Brand

The social media giant's powerful targeting tools appear to be part of Ben Shapiro’s success in growing his audience on the platform

Facebook Got Rid of Racial Ad Categories. Or Did It?

Our Citizen Browser project found an array of proxies through which advertisers can target Black Facebook users, among other demographics

After Repeatedly Promising Not to, Facebook Keeps Recommending Political Groups to Its Users

The company announced the policy as a way to stop spreading divisive content

Facebook Said It Would Stop Recommending Anti-Vaccine Groups. It Didn’t

As COVID-19 surged, the social media company pointed users to all sorts of anti-vaccine and anti-mask groups

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