Coronavirus
Online Unemployment Benefits Systems Are Buckling Under a Wave of Applications
Newly laid-off workers face crashes, long load times, and messages offering phone callbacks as states struggle to adjust
Colin Lecher
Reporter
Colin Lecher is an enterprise reporter based in New York with a focus on children and families. He’s passionate about the ways governments and businesses use technology to make crucial decisions, and the ways those decisions sometimes fall short.
Before joining The Markup, he was a senior reporter with The Verge. There, he reported on issues like automated cuts to healthcare, access to phone services in prisons, and the online gun market.
Coronavirus
Who Gets a Coronavirus Test? We’re Asking Every State for Its Algorithm
We want to know the ways one state’s testing procedures may vary from a neighbor’s, and the reasons why.
Ask The Markup
Who’s Allowed to Track My Kids Online?
What the United States’ children’s privacy law does and doesn’t do
Ask The Markup
Can a Robot Decide My MedicalTreatment?
It may already be happening. The high-stakes world of health care algorithms