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Surreal digital illustration of various vignettes and closeups of people in pain and suffering. At the center of the composition is a phone showing a text conversation with a crisis center.

Pixel Hunt

Suicide Hotlines Promise Anonymity. Dozens of Their Websites Send Sensitive Data to Facebook

The Markup found many sites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline transmitted information on visitors through the Meta Pixel

June 13, 2023 06:00 ET

image with purple/blue background with starts in the sky of a child on a bed looking at a computer generated catepillar

Hello World

The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT

Balancing enthusiasm and fear in the age of AI

June 10, 2023 08:00 ET

Photo collage of Long Van Nguyen (left) and Hai Nguyen (right). In the background is a YouTube thumbnail of one of Sonia Ohlala’s videos, featuring an image of Donald Trump.

Languages of Misinformation

Vietnamese YouTuber Is Filling Information Voids with Newsmax and Breitbart

How one Vietnamese community depends on YouTube for news, and what that tells us about the unmet needs of immigrant enclaves

June 9, 2023 12:00 ET

Digital illustration of scientists analyzing a wall filled with boxes containing human heads. Some scientists have clipboards, others are picking up the heads off the shelves.

Privacy

From “Heavy Purchasers” of Pregnancy Tests to the Depression-Prone: We Found 650,000 Ways Advertisers Label You

A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences

June 8, 2023 06:00 ET

Illustration of the back of a person's head. The person is POC, with short hair and earrings. On the left side are rows of houses, on the right side are a bunch of tall buildings in a city.

Hello World

The Government Segregated America. Here’s How Everyday People Desegregate It

A conversation with Richard and Leah Rothstein

June 3, 2023 08:00 ET

A photo collage of the class action suit against Life360.

Privacy

Life360 Sued for Selling Location Data

A proposed class-action lawsuit cites Markup reporting and claims the family-tracking app did not get user consent to sell location data

June 1, 2023 13:00 ET

Blacklight

Blacklight Updated With New Tracker Lists

Our website scanner can now warn you about additional companies that are tracking you

May 31, 2023 12:00 ET

A collage of three U.S. city maps with dots on addresses indicating internet speed.

Hello World

Our Maps Don’t Know Where You Are

We searched far and wide for a map that respects your privacy

May 27, 2023 08:00 ET

Collage of the three lead illustrations from the stories that won the 2022 SND Awards.

Inside The Markup

The Markup Wins Two SND Best of News Design Awards

The global contest recognizes excellence in visual storytelling, design, and journalism

May 23, 2023 09:53 ET

Illustration of a hospital room with a maze built in it. Hospital employees including nurses, doctors and executives are rearranging and building the maze.

Hello World

An Algorithm Decides Who Gets a Liver Transplant. Here Are 5 Things to Know.

Issues with liver allocation point to a larger issue within the U.S. transplant system

May 20, 2023 08:00 ET

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