Terry Parris Jr

Facebook Doesn’t Tell You What It Really Knows About You

The site shows users how Facebook categorizes them. It doesn’t reveal the data it is buying about their offline lives.

Julia Angwin
Terry Parris Jr
Surya Mattu
By Julia Angwin
And Terry Parris Jr
And Surya Mattu
Facebook

(ANALYSIS) --- Facebook has long let users see all sorts of things the site knows about them, like whether they enjoy soccer, have recently moved, or like Melania Trump. But the tech giant gives users little indication that it buys far more sensitive data about them, including their income, the types of restaurants they frequent and even how

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Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users By Race

Facebook’s system allows advertisers to exclude black, Hispanic, and other “ethnic affinities” from seeing ads.

Julia Angwin
Terry Parris Jr
By Julia Angwin
And Terry Parris Jr
Image credit: David Sleight/Pro Publica/CC

Imagine if, during the Jim Crow era, a newspaper offered advertisers the option of placing ads only in copies that went to white readers. That’s basically what Facebook is doing nowadays. The ubiquitous social network not only allows advertisers to target users by their interests or background, it also gives advertisers the ability to exclude

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