While vowing to police COVID-19 misinformation on its platform, Facebook let advertisers target users interested in “pseudoscience”.

Spotting the fakes isn’t always possible, but here are some tips

Amazon is the largest retailer in the world, but a majority of the sales on the site come from third-party sellers. Along with toasters and mops, the site’s a target for people trying to sell dangerous and illicit products.

We found discriminatory ads can still appear, despite Facebook's efforts

Comment comes as part of big tech CEO grilling by antitrust committee

We found banned items for sale on Amazon.com

The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page

Lawmakers allege abuse of monopoly power and political bias

The Markup obtained internal documents that coach new employees to avoid creating “very real legal risks” in using words like “market” and “networkeffects”

The Big Five tech companies — Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft and Google owner Alphabet — have come under serious scrutiny in the past few years. 

Improper use of user-profiles data by third parties is probably the most serious potential risk with regard to personal data contained

Personal data becomes publicly accessible in ways and in quantities hitherto unknown; above all, this happens concerning an enormous quantity of images

Think carefully before publishing your personal data (especially name, address, telephone number) in a user profile.

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