We keep an eye out for the most interesting stories about Labby subjects: digital media, startups, the web, journalism, strategy, and more. Here’s some of what we’ve seen lately.
ProPublica / Julia Angwin, Madeleine Varner, and Ariana Tobin
/ Sep 15, 2017“To test if these ad categories were real, ProPublica paid $30 to target groups with ‘promoted posts’ — in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds. Facebook approved all three ads within 15 minutes. After ProPublica contacted Facebook, it removed the anti-Semitic categories — which were created by an algorithm rather than by people — and said it would explore ways to fix the problem.” —
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Facebook advertising,
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