ID Scanners Can Change How Your Local Bar Treats You—and Whether It Lets You In
Patronscan can help bar owners decide you are too risky for admission
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.
Pixel Hunt
Department of Education Sued Following Markup Investigation Into FAFSA Data Shared with Facebook
Advocates want answers after The Markup found the department sharing student data with Meta
Digital Book Banning
Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own
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 Insurance, Cats, and Racial Discrimination
Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized
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Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
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How We Investigated Car Insurance Loopholes in Michigan
We found that Michigan’s reforms allowed auto insurers to charge higher rates in Black neighborhoods
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Why Stopping Algorithmic Inequality Requires Taking Race Into Account
Let us explain. With cats
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How to Get a Discount on Your Car Insurance
Step 1: Buy more insurance. Yup, you read that right
Artificial Intelligence
Everyone Is Judging AI by These Tests. But Experts Say They’re Close to Meaningless
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
When Government Bureaucracy Fails Them, a Collective of Indigenous Migrants Figure It Out Themselves
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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