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-Wesley- t1_ivcii2b wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Examining 100,000 crime-related posts from 14,000 Facebook pages maintained by U.S. law enforcement agencies between 2010 and 2019, researchers found that Facebook users are exposed to posts that overrepresent Black suspects by 25% relative to local arrest rates by giuliomagnifico

Read the article and associated paper. If cops arrest 100 people for assault (30 are black and 70 other), then the cops own FB page will publish 3 of the black cases and 5 of the other cases. So now it looks like 60% the cases in town are black people when it’s actually half that amount. The paper does a good job of differentiating between crimes.

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