Gabriel Hongsdusit

Visual Designer

Gabriel Hongsdusit is the visual designer at The Markup. Previously, he was the design and visuals editor at Reveal, where he was responsible for the overall design and visual direction of the newsroom, which included illustrations, editorial design, product design, photo editing, and data graphics. Before that, he was the design apprentice for the Institute for Nonprofit News.

Gabe graduated from UCLA with a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and Mandarin Chinese. He is based in the San Francisco Bay Area.

gabriel@themarkup.org @ghongsdusit

Pixel Hunt

How California sent residents’ personal health data to LinkedIn

The state’s health insurance exchange transmitted pregnancy and domestic abuse data during a marketing campaign. It is reviewing its website practices.

April 28, 2025 08:30 ET

Screenshot of The Markup's database showing state and local police agencies collaborating with ICE, overlaid on a pink and navy duotone background with sheriff cars; a magnifying glass icon appears in the bottom right

Tools

Here’s Every Local Police Agency Enforcing for ICE

Partnerships more than doubled during the first months of Trump's current term under a program known as 287(g)

April 16, 2025 08:00 ET

Illustration of an outline of CA showing a golden microchip pattern, set against a background of pixelated blocks that show the text to Assembly Bill 1018

Artificial Intelligence

California Is Considering 30 New AI Regulations. Trump Wants None

President Trump is taking a very different approach to AI than the Biden administration, and it could affect how California regulates artificial intelligence

March 13, 2025 08:30 ET

A pixelated 8-bit style illustration in purple, pink and yellow tones that shows a student using a laptop with several icons — a medical bag, a graduation cap, an art color palette and brush, music notes, science testing tubes and a book — around her that represent different careers. Several tex bubbles can also be seen throughout the illustration.

Machine Learning

AI Chatbots Can Cushion the High School Counselor Shortage — But Are They Bad for Students?

The more students turn to chatbots, the fewer chances they have to develop real-life relationships that can lead to jobs and later success

March 4, 2025 08:33 ET

Dating App Cover-Up: How Tinder, Hinge, and Their Corporate Owner Keep Rape Under Wraps

The company behind more than a dozen dating apps, Match Group, has known for years about the abusive users on its platforms, but chooses to leave millions of people in the dark

February 13, 2025 05:00 ET

Illustration featuring a magnifying glass positioned over multiple browser windows with a green swoosh in the background; inside the magnifying glass are two looping arrows

Blacklight

Launching Blacklight Query, a Tool to Scan Websites for Privacy at Scale

Inspect batches of websites for user-tracking tech with our new open-source command-line tool

October 16, 2024 08:00 ET

Illustration of a line of Senegalese men standing in front of a brightly lit iPhone; the man at the front is stepping into the phone's vibrant landscape, creating a striking contrast with the darker surroundings

Languages of Misinformation

TikTok Videos Spread Misinformation to New Migrant Community in New York City

Misinformation on TikTok influenced these Senegalese migrants to come to the United States. Now they are being fed even more misleading information about navigating their new home

September 26, 2024 07:00 ET