Allstate’s Algorithm
Michigan Regulators Question Allstate's Car Insurance Pricing
The agency is raising the same issues we found in our investigation of Allstate's proposed algorithm in Maryland
Aaron Sankin
Investigative Reporter
Aaron Sankin was an investigative reporter at The Markup until August 2024.
Aaron Sankin reports on the intersection of technology and inequality. While at The Markup, he focused on issues ranging from the digital divide and social media platform governance to law enforcement technology and car insurance regulation.
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.
Aaron’s reporting has won various journalism awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award, the Sigma Award, and the SABEW Association for Business Journalists Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Motley Fool, and Gizmodo.
Aaron uses he/him pronouns.
News
Facebook Removes Holocaust Denial Pages Following The Markup’s Report
We had found a network of anti-Semitic groups on the platform
News
Facebook Said It Would Ban Holocaust Deniers. Instead, Its Algorithm Provided a Network for Them
Anti-Semitic groups are still flourishing on Facebook
The BreakdownBlacklight
I Scanned My Favorite Social Media Site on Blacklight and It Came Up Pretty Clean. What’s Going On?
Ain't no tracking like first-party tracking ’cause first-party tracking don’t stop
Show Your WorkBlacklight
How We Built a Real-time Privacy Inspector
Blacklight catalogs the many ways any website tracks visitors: from cookies to capturing every user keystroke and mouse movement
The BreakdownBlacklight
I Scanned the Websites I Visit with Blacklight, and It’s Horrifying. Now What?
You should probably switch browsers or add some privacy extensions
Blacklight
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
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
Google Ad Portal Equated “Black Girls” with Porn
Searching Google’s ad buying portal for “Black girls” returned hundreds of terms leading to “adult content”
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”
Anatomy of a Fake News Headline
How a series of algorithms whiffed and ended up warning Oregonians of an antifa invasion
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