Citizen Browser
Trump’s False Posts Were Treated with Kid Gloves by Facebook
Data from Citizen Browser shows how rare it is for a post to be called “false”—especially if you’re the president
Julia Angwin
Founder
Julia Angwin founded The Markup to produce meaningful data-centered journalism about technology and the people affected by it. She left The Markup in February 2023.
Before founding The Markup, she led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009). She has a B.A. in mathematics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.
She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.
Julia’s OpenPGP key fingerprint is F292 E93A 86B3 1713 05A6 FE9F 85C9 09BB C664 D201.
Citizen Browser
Lawmaker Questions Facebook on Broken Election-Related Promise
Following an investigation by The Markup, Sen. Ed Markey is asking for answers on why Facebook failed to stop recommending political groups
Citizen Browser
Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political group recommendations
Citizen Browser
Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook last week
Show Your WorkCitizen Browser
How We Built a Facebook Inspector
The Citizen Browser project seeks to illuminate the content Facebook elevates in its users’ feeds
Citizen Browser
In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed
Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users’ feeds
Blacklight
What They Know … Now
The surveillance economy is getting creepier and more personal
The BreakdownCoronavirus
Will Google’s and Apple’s COVID Tracking Plan Protect Privacy?
The proposed system is anonymous but vulnerable to trolls and spoofing
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