This repository contains data underlying the findings of our story, "How Big Pharma Finds Sick Users on Facebook," from our series Citizen Browser.
Our methodology is described in "How We Built a Facebook Inspector."
facebook-pharmaceutical-ads.csv shows several examples of drug ads promoted on Facebook, and how they were targeted to users.
Data in the file is arranged as follows:
| column | description |
|---|---|
| name | The name of the drug advertised to users |
| ad_url | A link to the ad in Facebook's ad archive, if available |
| url_domain | The domain the ad linked out to from Facebook |
| interest_type | The user interest used to target the ad |
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