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Julia Angwin
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Julia Angwin
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Author ON COURAGE: HOW TO BE A DISSIDENT IN AN AGE OF FEAR | NYTimes Opinion Writer | Director, HKS Independent Media program| Founder, Proof News, The Markup
- Roger Ailes once threatened me that he had the rest of his life to get back at me for an article I wrote. Looks like he ran out of time.
- 🧵: Yesterday we revealed how YouTube enabled advertisers to build ad campaigns around hate terms. Today we reveal how YouTube blocked advertisers from building ad campaigns around social justice terms such as “Black Lives Matter.” themarkup.org/google-the-gia…
- LOL Facebook just offered me a $30 credit to boost my post about my investigation into discriminatory ads on their platform. ( ICYMI propublica.org/article/facebo…) They suggested that I might want to target my ads by “gender and age range” #automatedmarketingfail
- Today's journalism lesson: "On background" is a request for anonymity. To be honored, it must be agreed to by both parties. It cannot be unilaterally declared. That's why today we are publishing an email from Amazon which they insist was on background: documentcloud.org/documents/2120…
- Remember when a Google search used to lead you somewhere? Now it increasingly just keeps you on Google. In fact, Google results take up 62.6% of the first screen of search results in a sample of 15,000 searches.
- Wow, thanks @facebook. I’ve never been thanked before by a company that I’ve covered so aggressively. Maybe there is hope for civil public discourse in this world, after all…Thanks @JuliaAngwin. You've done a lot to uncover issues in our ads systems, which we've worked hard to fix. This new API is an important step towards greater transparency + other changes we're making like view ads and the archive going back 7 years for all political & issue ads.
- Last year I wrote about how Facebook let housing advertisers discriminate by race: propublica.org/article/facebo… Today: turns out Facebook didn’t fix it, despite its promises. propublica.org/article/facebo…
- Journalism is supposed to afflict the comfortable. So we built an app for that. Introducing Blacklight – a privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled. Built by the incomparable @suryamattu.
- Your identity wasn’t stolen. You are still you. Your financial institution failed to properly the authenticate the person who was impersonating you.Stop calling it #IdentityTheft. It’s a failure of companies (mostly financial institutions) to properly authenticate users & transactions. So says @JuliaAngwin of @propublica. Couldn’t agree more. Well worth your time to listen to interview w/ @chucktodd. player.fm/series/1947-th…
- Some personal news: today is my last day at ProPublica. I’ve loved my time here, but I’m starting a crazy adventure. I want to see if I can scale up my style of tech-driven investigations by building a newsroom around it. /1
- My latest investigation: Facebook’s secret censorship algorithm that protects white men more than black children.
- 2016: Russian trolls secretly place political ads on Facebook Today: we start monitoring political ads on FB
- I’m devastated to have been forced out of the organization I conceived to pursue rigorous, evidence-based tech accountability journalism. I will continue to pursue that mission and I hope to find other ways to build the field.The editorial team of @team_markup has signed a statement of unequivocal support for our Editor in Chief, @JuliaAngwin:
