Analysis: among the 10K most popular sites, right-leaning outlets placed 227 cookies in a user's browser, versus 131 for their left-leaning counterparts
Andy Greenberg / Wired : Tweets: @wired , @nxthompson , and @janelytv Tweets: @wired : A recent analysis of news outlets found that the median popular right-wing site planted 73 percent more cookies than its left-wing counterpart. https://www.wired.com/... Nicholas Thompson / @nxthompson : Right-wing sites track you much more than left-wing sites. And that's partly because companies pay more to put ads in front of conservatives. https://www.wired.com/... @janelytv : Cool research on who gets targeted by ads on partisan news sites. “Female personas generally attracted more cookies from all the sites than male ones, and older personas received more cookies than young ones.” But! Conservative sites placed more cookies. https://www.wired.com/...