Digital Book Banning
Online Censorship in Schools Leaves Teachers in the Lurch, Too
Educators describe scrapped lesson plans, laborious appeal processes, and digital dysfunction in response to The Markup’s latest investigation
Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Tara García Mathewson covers the intersection of technology and higher education at The Markup. She has been writing about schools for more than a decade, first as a local reporter in Chicago’s northwest suburbs and then nationally.
Before coming to The Markup, Tara worked at The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit newsroom focused on innovation and inequality in education, where she explored the “Future of Learning” in K-12 schools and helped establish Hechinger’s investigative team, primarily covering punitive school discipline.
Tara has been recognized for her beat reporting as well as features and investigations into the educational technology industry, school discipline, and other topics. Her work has appeared in a variety of regional and national news outlets, including the Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe Magazine, USA Today, and Wired.
She grew up in rural western New York and studied journalism and sociology at Northwestern University.
(Photograph by Mario Luis Small.)
Digital Book Banning
Educators describe scrapped lesson plans, laborious appeal processes, and digital dysfunction in response to The Markup’s latest investigation
Hello World
Web blockers are having all sorts of unintended consequences for students
Digital Book Banning
The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED
Show Your WorkDigital Book Banning
We requested records from 26 districts in 11 states. Ten turned us down on cybersecurity grounds.
Digital Book Banning
Virtually every public school filters the web, and blocked websites create a paper trail
Digital Book Banning
Their schools block information about The Trevor Project, abortion, microplastics, and more
Digital Book Banning
If you are a K-12 student, help extend our internet censorship investigation by connecting to your school’s wifi and clicking on websites to test them.
Automated Censorship
وجد تحقيق أجرته ”ذا مارك آب“ أن منصة الإنستغرام حجبت صور متعلقة بالحرب على غزة، وحذفت التسميات التوضيحية دون سابق إنذار، وحرمت المستخدمين من خيار الاستئناف.
Automated Censorship
An investigation by The Markup found that the platform demoted images of the Israel–Hamas war, deleted captions without warning, and denied users the option to appeal
Gentle January
Obscure your identity by opening a special type of browser window
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