Coronavirus

Companies Made Millions Building Unemployment Websites That Didn’t Work

In at least one case, that same company is now getting pandemic-related contracts

Coronavirus

¿Desea encontrar un público desinformado? Facebook ya lo hizo

Justo cuando se compromete a vigilar la desinformación que hay sobre COVID-19 en su plataforma, Facebook permite que los avisadores se dirijan a aquellos usuarios que están interesados en la “pseudociencia”

Coronavirus

¿Qué tan equitativa es la Justicia en Zoom?

Las audiencias judiciales se están volviendo virtuales en respuesta al coronavirus (COVID-19). Algunos estudios demuestran que pueden producirse resultados más severos para los acusados

The Breakdown

¿Cómo puedo preparar mi teléfono para una protesta?

Simples pasos a considerar antes de una protesta

The BreakdownCoronavirus

What’s Different About the 2020 Census?

The count is going mostly digital for the first time. Oh, and there’s a pandemic

Banned Bounty

Unlike Other Tech Giants, Amazon Won’t Say How Many Workers Review Posts

We found banned items for sale on Amazon.com

Banned Bounty

Quiz: Can You Spot the Banned Amazon Item?

Amazon content moderators have only a few minutes to decide if a product is on the list of nearly 2,000 banned items

Anatomy of a Fake News Headline

How a series of algorithms whiffed and ended up warning Oregonians of an antifa invasion

Google the Giant

To Gmail, Most Black Lives Matter Emails Are “Promotions”

Google shuffled mass emails about racial justice into the marketing tab in our test, mirroring its categorization of political emails

Coronavirus

Millions of Americans Depend on Libraries for Internet. Now They’re Closed

From big cities to tiny towns, librarians are getting scrappy to meet the need