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

Digital illustration of three police officers huddled around a device showing a map from Ring’s Neighbors app. There are several pins on the map labeled crime, safety, or stranger.

Neighborhood Watch

Amazon’s ‘Neighborhood Watch’ Might Be Turning Police Officers Into ‘Reddit Moderators’

Over 18 months, one LAPD officer received more than 10,000 emails from the social platform affiliated with Amazon’s Ring

October 11, 2023 08:00 ET

Photo collage of Christ surrounded by distorted bitcoins, standing in front of an abstract cubist background.

Hello World

Living in a World of Cyber Threats and God Bots

Author and cybersecurity researcher Scott Shapiro talks about how to get by in a world where cyber exploitation is everywhere

October 7, 2023 08:00 ET

Digital illustration of an exhausted female nurse sleeping at her desk. On top of her there are vignettes of her doing various activities including replacing an IV bag, running, giving a patient a cup of water, working at a computer and injecting someone’s arm with a needle.

Working for an Algorithm

What Happens When Nurses Are Hired Like Ubers

“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard

October 5, 2023 08:00 ET

Digital illustration of a grid overlaid on top of a closeup grainy photograph of two police officers holding their hands behind their back. One police officer’s gun is visible in the photo.

Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias

How We Assessed the Accuracy of Predictive Policing Software

We found that Geolitica’s crime prediction algorithm had a success rate of less than 1% in Plainfield, New Jersey

October 2, 2023 10:00 ET

Digital illustration of a grid overlaid on top of a closeup grainy photograph of two police officers holding their hands behind their back. One police officer’s gun is visible in the photo. Various squares are colored in pink, purple, orange and yellow.

Prediction: Bias

Predictive Policing Software Terrible At Predicting Crimes

A software company sold a New Jersey police department an algorithm that was right less than 1% of the time

October 2, 2023 10:00 ET

Hello World

Three Class Action Lawsuits Follow Markup Pixel Investigations

Our investigative series on Facebook trackers continues to have impact

September 30, 2023 08:00 ET

Photograph of a laptop screen showing the Amazon homepage, featuring a banner that says “Prime Day starts tomorrow.”

Amazon’s Advantage

Amazon Ranks Its Own Products First, FTC Lawsuit Says

Antitrust complaint comes two years after a Markup investigation reached the same conclusion about Amazon search results

September 28, 2023 08:00 ET

Watercolor illustration of a snaking line of students wearing graduation caps. Ten of the students are pink and there’s a bracket above them with the text “Less than 78.5% predicted chance of graduating.”

Hello World

Dropout Risk System Under Scrutiny After The Markup Report

The Center for Democracy & Technology makes a case for civil rights protections

September 23, 2023 08:00 ET

Pixel Hunt

FTC Warns Tax Prep Companies Against Invasive Online Tracking

Sharing private information could lead to penalties, agency says after Markup investigation

September 19, 2023 13:13 ET

Illustration of two panels. On the left panel is a manga-inspired drawing of Gabriel Hongsdusit, an Asian man with short black hair and glasses. He says, “Hi!” The speech bubble is coming out of the frame. The right panel has the typed out alt text of that illustration, which starts at “A manga-inspired drawing…”

Hello World

How We Approach Visual Storytelling Accessibility at The Markup

A Q&A with The Markup’s visual designer Gabriel Hongsdusit

September 16, 2023 08:00 ET

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