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Aaron Sankin

@asankin
14 posts
2022-10-20
If you want to dig into our methodology showing the full results and how we did it, check it out here (WARNING: Math) https://themarkup.org/...
2022-10-20 View on X
The Markup

Analysis in 38 US cities: AT&T, Verizon, and others offer lower-income and least-white areas slow internet for the same price as faster service in other regions

then signed up Chloe Albanesius / PCMag : ISPs Found Charging the Same for Internet Plans With Big Speed Disparities Nathan Yau / FlowingData : Slow internet for the same price as ...

2022-04-27
Bleak! https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/...
2022-04-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: data obtained through fake legal requests have been used to harass women and sexually extort minors; Meta, Apple, Google, and others handed over data

Major technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response …

@dellcam It's very cool and good when the best solution to a tech-related problem is, “throw all your devices into the ocean and move into a solitary cave in the woods.”
2022-04-27 View on X
Bloomberg

Sources: data obtained through fake legal requests have been used to harass women and sexually extort minors; Meta, Apple, Google, and others handed over data

Major technology companies have been duped into providing sensitive personal information about their customers in response …

2021-07-15
Piggybacking off of this very good story to say that @themarkup has actively been tracking the feeds of 1,200 Facebook users to gather data about what they see on the platform and those findings are updated on a daily basis here: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-07-15 View on X
New York Times

Facebook staff detail the fight over CrowdTangle, which notes top-engaging posts, often showing right-wing sources dominating; in April, its team was reassigned

literally 9 or 10 of 10—by conservative media posts. Facebook is unhappy that this makes them look like a right wing echo chamber and are contemplating if and how to reduce transpa...

2021-04-10
New from @leonyin & me: We discovered a secret block list inside of Google's ad portal. It blocked advertisers from placing ads on videos about “Black Lives Matter” but permitted placing ads on videos about “All Lives Matter” and “White Lives Matter” https://themarkup.org/...
2021-04-10 View on X
The Markup

YouTube blocks advertisers from using terms like “Black Lives Matter” to find videos to advertise against but was letting them use phrases like “White power”

with a tiny fraction of the budget and workforce Google has at their disposal—are able to discover how hate groups continue to operate on these platforms, while the company itself ...

2021-03-12
During the first month of 2021, two of the top four groups Facebook recommended to Democrats were promoting the Lincoln Project. https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-12 View on X
The Markup

Citizen Browser project's Split Screen tool shows Facebook's different News Feeds for Trump and Biden voters, based on data from 2,500+ users across the US

a tool that lets you see other people's feeds, based on our national panel of Facebook users. Brought to you by @suryamattu and @sammorrisdesign: https://themarkup.org/... Dan Froo...

During the first month of 2021, two of the top four groups Facebook recommended to Democrats were promoting the Lincoln Project. https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-03-12 View on X
MIT Technology Review

Facebook sidelined AI experts and weakened initiatives to clean up misinfo because leadership didn't want to hurt Zuckerberg's desire for growth

Joaquin Quiñonero Candela, a director of AI at Facebook, was apologizing to his audience.  —  It was March 23, 2018 …

2021-01-20
After the riot in the capitol, Facebook pledged it was going to stop recommending users join political groups. Here's what the platform's algorithm did instead https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-20 View on X
The Markup

Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”

According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations

2020-10-31
I am currently looking at the Facebook page for a prominent publisher for Holocaust denial literature and it's recommending three “related pages”: 1. An openly anti-Semitic group 2. A openly white nationalist podcast 3. Another publisher of Holocaust denial literature https://twitter.com/...
2020-10-31 View on X
BuzzFeed News

Facebook confirms it has stopped recommending that people join online groups dealing with political or social issues in the lead up to Election Day

“This is a measure we put in place in the lead-up to Election Day.  We will assess when to lift them afterwards, but they are temporary."  —  Copy

2020-08-30
An interesting wrinkle to this is that a few years ago Facebook told me that while it uses “ethnic affinity” for targeted ads, it doesn't use it to moderate content—meaning moderators typically couldn't see a user's race, but its advertising algo could. https://www.getrevue.co/...
2020-08-30 View on X
The Markup

Facebook has quietly removed “multicultural affinity” ad targeting option that allowed targeting by race, after years of charges of illegal discrimination

meaning moderators typically couldn't see a user's race, but its advertising algo could. https://www.getrevue.co/... @themarkup : This month, Facebook finally removed the “multicul...

2020-08-29
An interesting wrinkle to this is that a few years ago Facebook told me that while it uses “ethnic affinity” for targeted ads, it doesn't use it to moderate content—meaning moderators typically couldn't see a user's race, but its advertising algo could. https://www.getrevue.co/...
2020-08-29 View on X
The Markup

Facebook has quietly removed “multicultural affinity” ad targeting option that allowed targeting by race, after years of charges of illegal discrimination

meaning moderators typically couldn't see a user's race, but its advertising algo could. https://www.getrevue.co/... @themarkup : This month, Facebook finally removed the “multicul...

2020-07-30
Rep. Nadler asks Zuck about the Instagram acquisition. Nadler reads from internal emails where Zuck called IG “a threat,” “destructive,” and something that could “meaningfully hurt Facebook.” Zuck insists the $1b acquisition was mainly about building out mobile expertise.
2020-07-30 View on X
The Verge

Emails from Mark Zuckerberg, revealed by the House antitrust panel, show that Facebook wanted to buy Instagram at least partly to explicitly avoid competition

Hey what's up driving to dinner … Teja Chedalla / Android Headlines : Emails Reveal Zuckerberg Neutralized Competition With Instagram Acquisition Jack Gramenz / news.com.au : Billi...

Rep. Nadler asks Zuck about the Instagram acquisition. Nadler reads from internal emails where Zuck called IG “a threat,” “destructive,” and something that could “meaningfully hurt Facebook.” Zuck insists the $1b acquisition was mainly about building out mobile expertise.
2020-07-30 View on X
Bloomberg

Emails between Eddy Cue and other Apple execs from 2011, revealed in House hearing, show Apple considered 40% cut of first year digital content subscriptions

- IPhone maker's Eddy Cue reached 2016 deal with Amazon's Bezos  — In 2011, Apple executives weighed 40% fee for subscriptions

2020-04-24
Facebook let advertisers target users it determined were interested in “pseudoscience.” I discovered this because Facebook put me in that category by correctly identifying that I use Facebook like a big 'ol weirdo. https://themarkup.org/...
2020-04-24 View on X
The Markup

Facebook removes “pseudoscience” from the list of categories advertisers can use to target people after report that the category contained more than 78M people

Aaron Sankin / The Markup :