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The Government Has a Controversial Idea to Track Mental Health Crisis Calls

Why the national 988 hotline may start pinpointing callers

June 24, 2023 08:00 ET

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Privacy

How Your Attention Is Auctioned Off to Advertisers

In mere milliseconds, online advertisers scrutinize your personal data and bid for your eyeballs

June 23, 2023 09:00 ET

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Inside The Markup

The Markup Wins Digiday Media Award

Our investigation into hospitals sending sensitive information to Facebook won “Best Story”

June 20, 2023 16:32 ET

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Hello World

An AI Diagnosed Her with Breast Cancer. Then She Ran an Experiment to See How Accurate It Was

A conversation with Meredith Broussard

June 17, 2023 08:00 ET

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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

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Hello World

The Very Hungry Algorithm: Bedtime with ChatGPT

Balancing enthusiasm and fear in the age of AI

June 10, 2023 08:00 ET

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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

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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

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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

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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

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