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Madeleine Varner, ProPublica

Is Facebook committed to police discriminatory advertising for housing, employment or credit?

ProPublica bought a few ads and found major omissions.

Julia Angwin, ProPublica
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Ariana Tobin, ProPublica
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Madeleine Varner, ProPublica
· Nov 26, 2017 · 09:30 pm
Facebook enabled advertisers to direct their content to Jew haters

The social networking site has now removed several anti-Semitic ad categories and promised to improve monitoring.

Julia Angwin, ProPublica
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Madeleine Varner, ProPublica
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Ariana Tobin, ProPublica
· Sep 16, 2017 · 11:30 pm
Investigation: Leading US tech companies are helping White extremist sites make money

Firms such as PayPal and Amazon may have failed to establish the monitoring processes needed to weed out hate sites.

Julia Angwin,
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Lauren Kirchner
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Jeff Larson
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Madeleine Varner, ProPublica
· Aug 21, 2017 · 07:30 pm