I wrote about communities collecting twitter user data so that we can collectively learn about ourselves, and now the Washington Post is doing the same thing!!
it's incredible to me the scale of this. They made a plugin to anonymously collect ads people see. Partnered with Mozilla for outreach. Then a followup plugin that tied people you "YouGov" data (demographics, political leaning, race, state of residence, but not name or address).
highly suspicious: " mysterious Facebook page called “America Progress Now” urging liberals to vote for Green Party candidates. The candidates themselves had never heard of the group, and we couldn’t find any address or legal registration for it"
Apparently Jeremy B. Merrill has been doing this for a long time!
- in 2018 they collected 100k targeted facebook ads, contributed by 16,000 users - https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-political-ad-collector-targeted-ads-what-we-learned
it's incredible to me the scale of this. They made a plugin to anonymously collect ads people see. Partnered with Mozilla for outreach. Then a followup plugin that tied people you "YouGov" data (demographics, political leaning, race, state of residence, but not name or address).
highly suspicious: " mysterious Facebook page called “America Progress Now” urging liberals to vote for Green Party candidates. The candidates themselves had never heard of the group, and we couldn’t find any address or legal registration for it"