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136 stories published since 2014

Facebook and Twitter Turned to TurboVote to Drive Registrations. Officials Want Them to Turn Away.

by Jessica Huseman,

Facebook Moves to Block Ad Transparency Tools — Including Ours

by Jeremy B. Merrill, special to ProPublica, and Ariana Tobin,

Do You Know Someone Struggling With Video Gambling? ​Help Us Understand Video Slot and Poker Addiction in Illinois.

by Logan Jaffe,

Georgia Officials Quietly Patched Security Holes They Said Didn’t Exist

by Jack Gillum, Jessica Huseman, Mike Tigas and Jeff Kao, ProPublica; and Stephen Fowler, Georgia Public Broadcasting,

How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules

by Jeremy B. Merrill,

New Partnership Will Help Us Hold Facebook and Campaigns Accountable

by Jeremy B. Merrill,

Why Am I Seeing This? Interesting Facebook Ads From Our Political Ad Collector

by ProPublica,

Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

by Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill,

The Overlooked Weak Link in Election Security

by Jack Gillum and Jessica Huseman,

D.C.-Based Pro-Israel Group Secretly Ran Misleading Facebook Ads to Target Pro-Palestinian Activist

by Justin Elliott, ProPublica, and Josh Nathan-Kazis, The Forward,

No, a Teen Did Not Hack a State Election

by Lilia Chang,

Besieged Facebook Says New Ad Limits Aren’t Response to Lawsuits

by Ariana Tobin and Jeremy B. Merrill,

Facebook Promises to Bar Advertisers From Targeting Ads by Race or Ethnicity. Again.

by Ariana Tobin,

Updated: Facebook Political Ad Collector

by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ally J. Levine, Ariana Tobin, Jeff Larson, and Julia Angwin,

Facebook’s Screening for Political Ads Nabs News Sites Instead of Politicians

by Jeremy B. Merrill and Ariana Tobin,

What Facebook’s New Political Ad System Misses

by Jeremy B. Merrill, Ariana Tobin, and Madeleine Varner,

How to Wrestle Your Data From Data Brokers, Silicon Valley — and Cambridge Analytica

by Jeremy B. Merrill,

For Some Democrats, Facebook Likes Are a Path to Hard-to-Find Supporters

by Jeremy B. Merrill,

We Have Some Follow-Ups for Facebook — And We Want Your Help

by Ariana Tobin, Jeremy B. Merrill, Lucas Waldron and Terry Parris Jr.,

Four Ways to Fix Facebook

by Julia Angwin,

Outlets in Eight Countries Are Using Our Tool to Monitor Political Ads on Facebook

by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries,

Facebook’s Experiment in Ad Transparency Is Like Playing Hide And Seek

by Jennifer Valentino-DeVries,

Political Ads on Facebook

by Jeff Larson, Rob Weychert, Julia Angwin and Jennifer Valentino-DeVries,

ProPublica Seeks Source Code for New York City’s Disputed DNA Software

by Lauren Kirchner,

Despite Disavowals, Leading Tech Companies Help Extremist Sites Monetize Hate

by Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner, and Lauren Kirchner,

How We Investigated Technology Companies Supporting Hate Sites

by Jeff Larson and Madeleine Varner,

Service Provider Boots Hate Site Off the Internet

by Ken Schwencke,

Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children

by Julia Angwin, ProPublica, and Hannes Grassegger, special to ProPublica,

How to Protect Your Digital Privacy in the Era of Public Shaming

by Julia Angwin,

Breaking the Black Box: How Machines Learn to Be Racist

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.,

Breaking the Black Box: When Machines Learn by Experimenting on Us

Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Terry Parris Jr.,

When Algorithms Decide What You Pay

Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Terry Parris Jr.,

Breaking the Black Box: What Facebook Knows About You

Julia Angwin, Surya Mattu and Terry Parris Jr.,

Machine Bias

Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

How We Analyzed the COMPAS Recidivism Algorithm

Jeff Larson, Julia Angwin, Lauren Kirchner and Surya Mattu,

Meet the Online Tracking Device That is Virtually Impossible to Block

by Julia Angwin,