
Citizen Browser
Official Information About COVID-19 Is Reaching Fewer Black People on Facebook
According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Dara Kerr is an enterprise reporter based in Oakland with a focus on labor. She covers Silicon Valley employees, gig and warehouse workers, and the ways labor is changing. She’s interested in how companies are redefining work and what that means for society.
Before joining The Markup, she was a senior reporter for CNET, writing about the gig economy. Her reporting looked at the epidemic of sexual assault in ride-hailing, gig companies’ battles with government regulators, and the lack of protections for workers in that industry.
Citizen Browser
According to data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project, there are major disparities in who is shown public health information about the pandemic
Working for an Algorithm
The phishing scam targets gig workers, accessing their login credentials and stealing their pay
Working for an Algorithm
Gig workers, who report to a phone app instead of a human, are unusually vulnerable to phishing scams that drain entirepaychecks