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Do you have a right to donate your data to science?

Casey Newton
Oct 27, 2020
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Ten days ago, upstart nonprofit newsroom The Markup launched a custom web browser. The goal, editors said, is to “to audit the algorithms that social media platforms use to determine what information they serve their users, what news and narratives are amplified or suppressed, and which online communities those users are encouraged to join.”

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