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A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time
Show Your Work: How We Assessed the Accuracy of Predictive Policing Software
Previous Investigation: Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
Antitrust complaint comes two years after a Markup investigation reached the same conclusion about Amazon search results
Our investigative series on Facebook trackers continues to have impact
Our investigations use data-driven journalism and our own engineering expertise to reveal the hidden impacts of how tech is used.
The CEO's vision for Taser-equipped drones includes a fictitious scenario in which the technology averts a shooting at a daycare center
Newsletter: Private Companies Like Axon Expand Their Reach With Public Dollars. We Want to Look Into That
Stanford study found AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers
Newsletter: AI Detector Bias and Higher Ed Coverage at The Markup
An investigative data journalist and a former tech lawyer teach you how to spot tricks and hidden disclosures within these interminable documents—and even how to claw back some privacy
Newsletter: This Is What Happens When People Start Actually Reading Privacy Policies
Our tools hold institutions accountable for the way they use technology, pulling back the curtain so readers can see for themselves how technology affects them.
Measure in real-time how long it takes for X’s link shortener to redirect to any URL.
The Markup’s popular tool now gives you more ways to understand how sites are tracking you
Update: Blacklight Updated With New Tracker Lists
Impact: 10 Million Blacklight Scans Later, Here’s What You Found
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We publish our datasets, methodologies, story recipes, and processes so communities, journalists, and researchers can check our work and build on our reporting.
A lot of what we cover is tough to visualize. We've developed a number of tricks to help—and a comic to tell you all about them
Related: Plain Text Zine: How We Illustrate Tech (and AI) at The Markup
Newsletter: How We Approach Visual Storytelling Accessibility at The Markup
You might even be able to help improve crucial government broadband data in the process
Bring Your Own Data: Slow Internet? Find Out What Side of the Digital Divide You’re On
Our journalism has driven real-world change—from changes in government policy to the removal of tracking technology.
Our investigative series on Facebook trackers continues to have impact
Related Impact: FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking
Related Impact: Congressional Report Finds Meta and Tax Prep Companies “Recklessly” Shared Taxpayers’ Data
Antitrust complaint comes two years after a Markup investigation reached the same conclusion about Amazon search results
Original Investigation: Amazon Puts Its Own “Brands” First Above Better-Rated Products
The Center for Democracy & Technology makes a case for civil rights protections
Original Investigation: False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”
Related: Takeaways from Our Investigation into Wisconsin’s Racially Inequitable Dropout Algorithm
