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Facebook’s Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children - 25 janvier 2021
A trove of internal documents sheds light on the algorithms that Facebook’s censors use to differentiate between hate speech and legitimate political expression.
In the wake of a terrorist attack in London earlier this month, a U.S. congressman wrote a Facebook post in which he called for the slaughter of (...)
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NYPD Cops Cash In on Sex Trade Arrests With Little Evidence, While Black and Brown New Yorkers Pay the Price - 9 décembre 2020
Some NYPD officers who police the sex trade, driven by overtime pay, go undercover to round up as many “bodies” as they can with little evidence. Almost no one they arrest is white.
One summer night in 2015, a community college student was driving home through East New York in Brooklyn when two women on a street (...)
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“Trumpcare” Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for “Garbage” Health Insurance. - 20 octobre 2020
The thousands of “Trumpcare” ads Facebook and Google have published show that the shadowy “lead generation” economy has a happy home on the platforms — and even big names like UnitedHealthcare take part.
“Trumpcare” insurance will “finally fix healthcare,” said an advertisement on Facebook.
A Google ad urged people to (...)
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Meet the Customer Service Reps for Disney and Airbnb Who Have to Pay to Talk to You - 2 octobre 2020
Arise Virtual Solutions, part of the secretive world of work-at-home customer service, helps large corporations shed costs at the expense of workers. Now the pandemic is creating a boom in the industry.
Airbnb, battered by the pandemic recession, announced in May that it would be laying off a quarter of its (...)
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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Confirms a Pattern of Age Discrimination at IBM - 13 septembre 2020
A sweeping decision by the EEOC could cost the tech giant millions in settlements or make it the target of a federal age-discrimination lawsuit. Its findings echo those of a ProPublica investigation.
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a sweeping decision concluding that IBM engaged in (...)
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The NYPD Is Withholding Evidence From Investigations Into Police Abuse - 17 août 2020
The NYPD has regularly failed to turn over key records and videos to police abuse investigators at New York’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. “This just seems like contempt,” said the now-retired judge who ordered the NYPD to use body cameras.
Last summer, New York City police officers drove by two friends sitting (...)
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ICE Guards “Systematically” Sexually Assault Detainees in an El Paso Detention Center, Lawyers Say - 15 août 2020
Allegations include guards attacking victims in camera “blind spots” and telling them that “no one would believe” them in ICE detention centers, which imprison about 50,000 immigrants each year at a taxpayer expense of $2.7 billion.
Guards in an immigrant detention center in El Paso sexually assaulted and harassed (...)
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We’re Publishing Thousands of Police Discipline Records That New York Kept Secret for Decades - 3 août 2020
ProPublica obtained these police records from New York City’s Civilian Complaint Review Board. NYPD unions are suing to halt the city from making the data public.
Until last month, New York state prohibited the release of police officers’ disciplinary records. Civilians’ complaints of abuse by officers were a (...)
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The Police Have Been Spying on Black Reporters and Activists for Years. I Know Because I’m One of Them. - 9 juin 2020
Wendi C. Thomas is a black journalist who has covered police in Memphis. One officer admitted to spying on her. She’s on a long list of prominent black journalists and activists who have been subjected to police surveillance over decades.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. — On Aug. 20, 2018, the first day of a federal police (...)
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Amazon’s New Competitive Advantage : Putting Its Own Products First - 6 juin 2020
Brands have long been able to bid for the premier slot at the top left of Amazon’s listings, but during the pandemic the online retailer has begun using this position for its private-label items, raising antitrust concerns.
Until recently, when Amazon customers typed “melatonin” into the site’s search bar, a variety (...)
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The Amazon Lockdown : How an Unforgiving Algorithm Drives… — ProPublica - 27 avril 2020
At a time when much of the retail sector is collapsing, Amazon is strengthening its competitive position in ways that could outlast the pandemic — and raise antitrust concerns.
During the second week of March, as the stock market and many U.S. businesses slumped, Peter Spenuzza’s company, Rise Bar, enjoyed an (...)
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The Hate Store : Amazon’s Self-Publishing Arm Is a Haven for White Supremacists — ProPublica - 7 avril 2020
The company gives extremists and neo-Nazis banned from other platforms unprecedented access to a mainstream audience — and even promotes their books.
“Give me, a white man, a reason to live,” a user posted to the anonymous message board 4chan in the summer of 2017. “Should I get a hobby. What interests can I pursue to (...)
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The IRS Decided to Get Tough Against Microsoft. Microsoft Got Tougher. — ProPublica - 23 janvier 2020
For years, the company has moved billions in profits to Puerto Rico to avoid taxes. When the IRS pushed it to pay, Microsoft protested that the agency wasn’t being nice. Then it aggressively fought back in court, lobbied Congress and changed the law.
Eight years ago, the IRS, tired of seeing the country’s largest (...)
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Inside Documents Show How Amazon Chose Speed Over Safety in Building Its Delivery Network - 24 décembre 2019
Amazon ignored or dismissed safety concerns about its delivery network to prioritize speed and explosive growth, according to new documents and interviews with insiders.
As they prepared for last year’s holiday rush, managers at Amazon unveiled a plan to make the company’s sprawling delivery network the safest in (...)
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The Deadly Race - 7 septembre 2019
How Amazon Hooked America on Fast Delivery While Avoiding Responsibility for Crashes
Our investigation found Amazon escapes responsibility for its role in deaths and serious injuries even though the company keeps a tight grip on how third-party delivery drivers do their jobs.
When she added Gabrielle’s name to (...)
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How Amazon and Silicon Valley Seduced the Pentagon - 22 août 2019
Tech moguls like Jeff Bezos and Eric Schmidt have gotten unprecedented access to the Pentagon. And one whistleblower who raised flags has paid the price.
On Aug. 8, 2017, Roma Laster, a Pentagon employee responsible for policing conflicts of interest, emailed an urgent warning to the chief of staff of (...)
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How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules - 8 mars 2019
We’ve identified 12 ad campaigns in which energy, insurance and other industries masked their sponsorship of political messages on Facebook.
A Facebook ad in October urged political conservatives to support the Trump administration’s rollback of fuel emission standards, which it hailed as "our president’s car (...)
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Your Medical Devices Are Not Keeping Your Health Data to… — ProPublica - 21 novembre 2018
CPAP units, heart monitors, blood glucose meters and lifestyle apps generate information that can be used in ways patients don’t necessarily expect. It can be sold for advertising or even shared with insurers, who may use it to deny reimbursement.
Medical devices are gathering more and more data from their users, (...)
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You Snooze, You Lose : Insurers Make The Old Adage… — ProPublica - 21 novembre 2018
Millions of sleep apnea patients rely on CPAP breathing machines to get a good night’s rest. Health insurers use a variety of tactics, including surveillance, to make patients bear the costs. Experts say it’s part of the insurance industry playbook.
Last March, Tony Schmidt discovered something unsettling about the (...)
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Cutting "˜Old Heads’ at IBM - 19 septembre 2018
As it scrambled to compete in the internet world, the once-dominant tech company cut tens of thousands of U.S. workers, hitting its most senior employees hardest and flouting rules against age bias.
For nearly a half century, IBM came as close as any company to bearing the torch for the American Dream.
As the (...)
