---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Peter M. Weiss <pete-we...@psu.edu> Date: Wed, Dec 26, 2018, 4:34 PM Subject: fwd: What We Learned From Collecting 100, 000 Targeted… To: <car...@ls2.cmich.edu>
Via ProPublica https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-political-ad-collector-targeted-ads-what-we-learned More than 16,000 people have participated in our project to collect and analyze political ads on the social media platform during the midterm elections this year. by Jeremy B. Merrill <https://www.propublica.org/people/jeremy-b-merrill> Dec. 26, 12:39 p.m. EST <https://donate.propublica.org> Since we launched our Facebook Political Ad Collector project in fall 2017, more than 16,000 people have participated in it. They all agreed to install a browser plug-in that anonymously sent us the ads they see when they browse Facebook. We used that data to understand and report on how political messaging on Facebook works, and how the system is being gamed to manipulate the public discourse. ... -- * Pete <https://www.llrx.com/author/pete-weiss/> Sr. Systems Configurator, emeritus * ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the CARR-L list, click the following link: https://ls2.cmich.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=CARR-L&A=1 ―― View topic http://groups.dowire.org/r/topic/6jwNXE55rT9PmlpRARAPLg Leave group mailto:newswire@groups.dowire.org?subject=Unsubscribe
