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A collage of illustrations from The Markup's stories this year.

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Our Real-World Impact In 2024

The Markup’s reporting led to federal lawsuits, local government reforms, and much more

December 14, 2024 08:00 ET

Photo collage of a series of duotone neon-green and blue panels that feature images of a farming tractor, a woman wearing a headset with her hands in her face, an image of a ChatGPT answer in Spanish, hands cupped together dripping water, a parrot and an overhead shot of two workers standing at an energy grid

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How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More

A conversation with agroecologist Maywa Montenegro

September 21, 2024 08:00 ET

Illustration of an iceberg with a small figure standing at the top, gazing downward; the top half is in front of a ChatGPT input form; the bottom half is a collage featuring imagery of power plants, copyright symbols, a surveillance map, people crying, and downward arrows

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How I’m Trying to Use Generative AI as a Journalism Engineer — Ethically

Is it possible?

September 7, 2024 08:00 ET

Illustration of a pixelated pizza with one slice being lifted, set against a background of pixelated circles and envelopes

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Rejecting Dogmas Around AI, User Privacy, and Tech Policy

A conversation with AI scientist Jonathan Frankle

August 17, 2024 08:00 ET

Photo illustration of sketches and clippings related to the art for the Michigan auto insurance investigation

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Using Illustration To Help Investigations Stay Grounded and Approachable

Taking inspiration from The Simpsons and Chevron commercials, we created an illustrated explainer to ground our storytelling

August 3, 2024 08:00 ET

Illustration of 'hello world' in a simple sans-serif font on a lime-green background, showing a faint overlay of a driver’s license over an image of people at a bar.

ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In

Patronscan can help bar owners decide you are too risky for admission

July 27, 2024 08:00 ET

Photo of Melissa Love sitting in the driver’s seat of her blue car, looking straight at the camera

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Car Insurance, Cats, and Racial Discrimination

Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized

July 20, 2024 08:00 ET

Photo illustration of the book covers from the summer reading list, set against a pool backdrop

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Our Blended Newsroom's Summer Reading List

Chip away at your TBR pile with these recs

July 13, 2024 08:00 ET

Illustration of an early computer monitor displaying the text "Connecting to WIFI" set against a background of a map with scattered abstract shapes and US coins

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How California’s ‘once in a century’ broadband investment plan could go wrong

A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say

July 6, 2024 08:00 ET

Wide-shot photograph of a crowd of unionized academic workers holding signs that say “UAW on Strike Unfair Labor Practice”

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A New, Dirty Vision for Higher Education

An interview with Julia Schleck, who argues that rather than serving the public good, universities should be a forum to define and debate the public good

June 15, 2024 08:00 ET

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