
Show Your WorkInvestigation
How We Investigated L.A.’s Homelessness Scoring System
Year after year, White people have been rated highly “vulnerable” more often than Black people
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
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.
Show Your WorkInvestigation
Year after year, White people have been rated highly “vulnerable” more often than Black people
Investigation
An investigation by The Markup found racial disparities in L.A.’s intake system for unhoused people
Story Recipes
The survey we investigated was also used in dozens of other cities and counties, according to its creators. Here are our tips for looking into it
Hello World
Especially when there’s a better way
Pixel Hunt
The Markup revealed the companies’ practices last year
Pixel Hunt
Letters to the companies, signed by Warren and others, cite a recent Markup investigation
Pixel Hunt
A proposed class action was filed on Dec. 1
Pixel Hunt
The Markup found services including TaxAct, TaxSlayer, and H&R Block sending sensitive data
The Breakdown
But will they be effective or reinforce bias-based practices?
Citizen Browser
Facebook pledged to remove race, health conditions, and political affiliation from ad-targeting options, but The Markup found advertisers can still easily target the same people
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