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Photograph of a pink Mary Kay Cadillac Escalade parked in the driveway of a home.

Hello World

Tell Us About Your Experience With Multi-Level Marketing Companies and Tech

Help guide our reporting by telling us what you’ve experienced in this space

August 26, 2023 08:00 ET

Blacklight

Announcing Three New Features for the Blacklight Privacy Inspector

The Markup’s popular tool now gives you more ways to understand how sites are tracking you

August 25, 2023 08:00 ET

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News

Pyramid Schemes Are Illegal. MLMs Are Not. What About the Tech That Powers Them?

Multi-level marketing companies have captured the public’s attention in recent years. Behind them is a little-known industry of software providers

August 24, 2023 08:00 ET

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LevelUp

How to Legally Scrape EU Data for Investigations

Data collection laws are much trickier to navigate in Europe than in the U.S.

August 23, 2023 08:00 ET

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Hello World

AI Detector Bias and Higher Ed Coverage at The Markup

One of our newest reporters shares her plans for investigating tech in higher education

August 19, 2023 08:00 ET

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Inside The Markup

The Markup Wins NABJ Salute to Excellence Award

The award recognizes the best journalism covering the Black experience or addressing issues affecting the worldwide Black community

August 15, 2023 08:00 ET

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Machine Learning

AI Detection Tools Falsely Accuse International Students of Cheating

Stanford study found AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers

August 14, 2023 08:00 ET

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Hello World

This Is What Happens When People Start Actually Reading Privacy Policies

A recent controversy about Zoom’s ability to train AI on users’ conversations shows the importance of reading the fine print

August 12, 2023 08:00 ET

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Still Loading

Magic Spreadsheets That Equip the Public

Use these tools and techniques to bring “receipts from streets” with little-to-no code

August 11, 2023 08:00 ET

Illustration of a browser window displaying the outline of two houses, with a text window over it. Behind the browser window there is a dark blue background with rough white sketches of various graphics.

LevelUp

How We Create Custom Graphics at The Markup

A lesson in software and sanity maintenance

August 8, 2023 08:00 ET

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