Jeremy B. Merrill's Clips

I should probably have warned you that I don't always remember to update my clips, so there could be something newer.

Also, here are some things I'm especially proud of.

• clip May 13, 2021 The Markup

  Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban

• clip Apr 13, 2021 The Markup

  How Facebook’s Ad System Lets Companies Talk Out of Both Sides of Their Mouths

• clip Feb 11, 2021 The Markup

  Google Has Been Allowing Advertisers to Exclude Nonbinary People from Seeing Job Ads

• clip Jan 21, 2021 The Markup

  Tech Firms Profited from Far-Right Militia Content Despite Ban on “Three Percenters”

• clip Nov 17, 2020 The Markup

  Targeting Trump Fans, QAnon Ad Slips Through Facebook’sFilters

• clip Nov 7, 2020 ProPublica

  Trump Won Florida After Running a False Ad Tying Biden to Venezuelan Socialists

• clip Oct 29, 2020 The Markup

  Facebook Charged Biden a Higher Price Than Trump for Campaign Ads

• clip Oct 20, 2020 ProPublica

  “Trumpcare” Does Not Exist. Nevertheless Facebook and Google Cash In on Misleading Ads for “Garbage” Health Insurance.

• clip Sep 25, 2020 Quartz

  Metals.com is shut down by US regulators after years of allegedly scamming seniors

• clip Sep 23, 2020 The Marshall Project

  Trump's Crime and Carnage Ad Blitz is Going Unanswered on Facebook

• clip Aug 24, 2020 The Markup

  Does Facebook still sell discriminatory ads?

• clip May 29, 2020 Quartz

  Amazon turns in its own sellers for Covid-related price gouging.

• clip Apr 15, 2020 Quartz

  A well-heeled liberal group is filling the local news void with Trump-bashing coronavirus ads

• clip Mar 1, 2020 Quartz

  Theme: Covering Politics in 2020 using Machine Learning

• clip Feb 11, 2020 Quartz

  Dark money groups on Facebook attack Bernie and Biden

• clip Feb 1, 2020 Platforms

  Theme: Monitoring the platforms: discriminatory ads, "banned" ads and secret data about you

• clip Jan 15, 2020 Quartz

  AI for Investigations: Sorting through the Luanda Leaks

• clip Dec 23, 2019 Explanatory

  Explaining online campaign tactics, like A/B testing and listbuilding

• clip Nov 19, 2019 Quartz

  Facebook ads targeted Fox News fans for shady silver coin scheme

• clip Nov 1, 2019 Investigative

  The fight against financial advertisers using Facebook for digital redlining

• clip Apr 12, 2019 Quartz AI Studio

  A Crash Course for Journalists In Classifying Text with Machine Learning

• clip Mar 7, 2019 Quartz AI Studio

  How you’re feeling when machine learning might help

• clip Mar 1, 2019 Quartz AI Studio

  Here’s what Lyft talks about as risk factors that other companies don’t

• clip Dec 26, 2018 ProPublica

  What We Learned From Collecting 100,000 Targeted Facebook Ads

• clip Nov 5, 2018 ProPublica

  A Mysterious Facebook Group Is Using Bernie Sanders’ Image to Urge Democrats to Vote for the Green Party

• clip Nov 1, 2018 ProPublica

  How Big Oil Dodges Facebook’s New Ad Transparency Rules

• clip Oct 29, 2018 ProPublica

  Groups Mask Partisan Attacks Behind Neutral-Sounding Names in Facebook Ads

• clip Sep 18, 2018 ProPublica

  Facebook Is Letting Job Advertisers Target Only Men

• clip Aug 23, 2018 ProPublica

  Besieged Facebook Says New Ad Limits Aren’t Response to Lawsuits

• clip Jul 17, 2018 ProPublica

  Facebook Political Ad Collector — Homepage Redesign

• clip Jun 15, 2018 ProPublica

  Facebook's New Screening System Flags the Wrong Ads as Political

• clip May 24, 2018 ProPublica

  What Facebook's New Political Ad System Misses

• clip Apr 30, 2018 ProPublica

  How To Wrestle Your Data from Cambridge Analytica, Silicon Valley and Data Brokers

• clip Apr 24, 2018 ProPublica

  What's Congress Talking About?

• clip Jan 1, 2018 ProPublica

  Facebook Political Ad Collector

• clip Dec 15, 2017 ProPublica

  Lobbying Database

• clip Nov 20, 2017 ProPublica

  Chamber of Secrets: Teaching a Machine What Congress Cares About

• clip Oct 4, 2017 ProPublica

  Chamber of Secrets: Teaching a Machine What Congress Cares About

• clip Jul 19, 2017 ProPublica

  Authenticating Email Using DKIM and ARC, or How We Analyzed the Kasowitz Emails

• clip May 29, 2017 The New York Times

  As Computer Coding Classes Swell, So Does Cheating

• clip Nov 7, 2016 The New York Times

  Why Facebook Showed You That Ad for the Candidate You Hate

• clip Nov 6, 2016 The New York Times

  Campaign Social Media Databases and Tools

• clip Aug 24, 2016 The New York Times

  Political Ad Tracker: Crowdsourced Collection of Facebook Political Ads

• clip Aug 24, 2016 The New York Times

  Liberal, Moderate or Conservative? See How Facebook Labels You

• clip May 20, 2016 The New York Times

  Montreal Played Role in Plan to Get Donald Trump’s Plane Flying Again

• clip May 11, 2016 The New York Times

  Hillary, Donald and Bernie Don’t Catch On as Baby Names

• clip Apr 26, 2016 Source

  Natural Language Generation + Statistics = A Funny Bogus Pundit Bot

• clip Apr 26, 2016 The New York Times

  After Legal Maneuver, Donald Trump’s Jet Is Cleared to Fly

• clip Mar 4, 2016 The New York Times

  Michael Bloomberg Moved His Website as Speculation About Intentions Grew

• clip Feb 1, 2016 The New York Times

  On Wikipedia, Donald Trump Reigns and Facts Are Open to Debate

• clip Dec 5, 2015 The New York Times

  How Donald Trump Talks

• clip Nov 7, 2015 The New York Times

  Marco Rubio’s Use of Party Credit Card Reinforces a Picture of Messy Finances

• clip Oct 15, 2015 The New York Times

  Men Dominate in Political Giving; Hillary Clinton’s Donors Are an Exception

• clip Jul 27, 2015 The New York Times

  Blame Uber for Congestion in Manhattan? Not So Fast

• clip Jun 25, 2015 The New York Times

  When a Company Is Put Up for Sale, in Many Cases, Your Personal Data Is, Too

• clip Jun 24, 2015 The New York Times

  Honors for Confederates, for Thousands of Miles

• clip Jun 23, 2015 The New York Times

  The Northeast Corridor's Curviest Stretches, and Amtrak's Plans for Safety and Speed

• clip Apr 26, 2015 The New York Times

  A Search Tool for Emails, Websites or... Anything

• clip Nov 4, 2014 The New York Times

  The Most Detailed Maps You’ll See From the Midterm Elections*

• clip Oct 23, 2014 The New York Times

  One-Third of Top Websites Restrict Customers' Right to Sue

• clip Apr 22, 2014 The New York Times

  The Upshot site

• clip Apr 9, 2014 ProPublica

  How the Labor Department Has Let Companies Off the Hook for Unpaid Internships

• clip Jul 22, 2013 ProPublica

  Upton: A Web-Scraping Framework

• clip Jun 13, 2013 ProPublica

  Unpaid Interns Win Major Ruling in ‘Black Swan’ Case — Now What?

• clip May 30, 2013 ProPublica

  Free The Files: Massively-Crowdsourced Transcriptions

• clip May 30, 2013 ProPublica

  Dollars for Docs: Data Update

• clip May 30, 2013 ProPublica

  Bailout Uploader

• clip Mar 25, 2013 ProPublica

  Heart of Nerd Darkness: Why Updating Dollars for Docs Was So Difficult

• clip Nov 5, 2012 The New York Times

  Imago: a NYT web app for curating photos and building slideshows

• clip Apr 17, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  CMC Falsely Reported More Than Just SATs, Report Shows

• clip Mar 27, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  State of CMC: Gann Discusses SAT Scandal and Master Plan

• clip Feb 28, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  Investigating Campus Safety’s Use of Pepper Spray

• clip Feb 24, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  Wealth and Salaries at the Claremont Colleges

• clip Feb 15, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  Visualizing the SAT Scandal

• clip Feb 12, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  SAT Scandal Involved Systematic Score Manipulation

• clip Feb 12, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  President Pamela Gann Speaks About SAT Scandal

• clip Feb 12, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  Kiplinger Drops CMC from “Best Value” Rankings

• clip Feb 12, 2012 Claremont Port Side

  In SAT Score Scandal, CMC Admissions Dean Richard Vos Resigns

• clip Sep 24, 2011 Uncategorized

  Integrating Open Source Into the Newsroom