Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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.
Digital Book Banning
During early COVID lockdowns, a teen raised $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web
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Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized
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An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
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We found that Michigan’s reforms allowed auto insurers to charge higher rates in Black neighborhoods
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Let us explain. With cats
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Step 1: Buy more insurance. Yup, you read that right
Artificial Intelligence
Benchmarks used to rank AI models are several years old, often sourced from amateur websites, and, experts worry, lending automated systems a dubious sense of authority
Languages of Misinformation
The Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combats vaccine misinformation, translates for fellow migrants in court, and works with linguists to create new Indigenous words.
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A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say
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A conversation with Sasha Issenberg about his book on how to win elections in the new normal of omnipresent fake news
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