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Professor Rikke Bjerg Jensen explores how social context shapes security
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AI can help businesses charge you more based on how it evaluates your personal history and desires. California lawmakers want to end that price discrimination
The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success
Our investigations use data-driven journalism and our own engineering expertise to reveal the hidden impacts of how tech is used.
The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark
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CalMatters and The Markup used Facebook’s AI model to count the millions of dollars it makes after violent news events
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Misinformation on TikTok influenced these Senegalese migrants to come to the United States. Now they are being fed even more misleading information about navigating their new home
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A guide to keeping your plans private through every step of an abortion in any state, including Florida and South Dakota
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CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state
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Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
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The legislation would require the agency to incorporate factors linked to elevated suicide risk among women veterans into its AI program
Original Investigation: V.A. Uses a Suicide Prevention Algorithm To Decide Who Gets Extra Help. It Favors White Men.
Advocates want answers after The Markup found the department sharing student data with Meta
Original Investigation: Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You
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.
Inspect batches of websites for user-tracking tech with our new open-source command-line tool
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Measure in real-time how long it takes for X’s link shortener to redirect to any URL.
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Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in major U.S. cities
Resource: Slow Internet? Find Out What Side of the Digital Divide You’re On
