
Allstate’s Algorithm
Michigan Regulators Question Allstate’s Car InsurancePricing
The agency is raising the same issues we found in our investigation of Allstate's proposed algorithm in Maryland
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Aaron Sankin reports on how technology can be used to harm marginalized people. His focus is on platform governance, online extremism, and regulatory policy.
Before The Markup, he covered online extremism for the Center for Investigative Reporting, where he launched the Hate Report newsletter and co-created the Hate Sleuths citizen journalism initiative. Before that, he was a senior staff writer at the Daily Dot and a founding editor of the Huffington Post’s San Francisco vertical.
His work has earned various awards, including a 2018 Public Radio News Directors Incorporated Award and a 2018 Webby Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Motley Fool, and Gizmodo.
Allstate’s Algorithm
The agency is raising the same issues we found in our investigation of Allstate's proposed algorithm in Maryland
News
We had found a network of anti-Semitic groups on the platform
News
Anti-Semitic groups are still flourishing on Facebook
Ask The MarkupBlacklight
Ain't no tracking like first-party tracking ’cause first-party tracking don’t stop
Show Your WorkBlacklight
Blacklight catalogs the many ways any website tracks visitors: from cookies to capturing every user keystroke and mouse movement
Ask The MarkupBlacklight
You should probably switch browsers or add some privacyextensions
Blacklight
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data
Google the Giant
Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”
Coronavirus
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”
How a series of algorithms whiffed and ended up warning Oregonians of an antifa invasion
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