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“Spiegel Online, Süddeutsche Zeitung, and Tagesschau readers were asked to install a tool to their web browser, which would collect ads displayed on their Facebook news feeds whenever they logged on. It would then guess which ones are politically motivated through an algorithm built by ProPublica. (The research does not contain any evidence of non-German actors trying to influence the outcome of the election.)” —
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ProPublica,
Spiegel Online,
Süddeutsche Zeitung,
Tagesschau
