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Illustration of a greyed out web browser showing a hospital portal. A white hand behind it is pulling off a strip of the browser and pills are falling out of that strip. There is a blue glow behind the edge of the browser window.

Inside The Markup

The Markup Wins Digiday Media Award

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

June 20, 2023 4:32 p.m. UTC

Digital illustration of a woman, with her left hand holding her elbow. There are magnifying glasses to each side of her showing a closeup of her X-ray, but the image is being dissolved into pixels.

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 8:00 a.m. UTC

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 6:00 a.m. UTC

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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 8:00 a.m. UTC

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 p.m. UTC

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 6:00 a.m. UTC

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 8:00 a.m. UTC

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 1:00 p.m. UTC

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 p.m. UTC

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 8:00 a.m. UTC

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