Premium Penalty
How to Get a Discount on Your Car Insurance
Step 1: Buy more insurance. Yup, you read that right
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.
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.
Hello World
How California’s ‘once in a century’ broadband investment plan could go wrong
A nearly $2 billion initiative to remedy the digital divide is designed to fail, advocates say
Hello World
The Secret To Beating Political Disinformation Is Knowing When Not To Fact-Check
A conversation with Sasha Issenberg about his book on how to win elections in the new normal of omnipresent fake news
Languages of Misinformation
He Found the American Dream on China’s TikTok, the Reality Was More Complicated
Videos on China’s TikTok, Douyin, give Chinese migrants step-by-step instructions on how to get to the United States—and then leave them stranded upon arrival
Languages of Misinformation
The Inside Story of the YouTube Influencer Who Peddles Misinformation to Vietnamese Communities
Sonia Ohlala borrows heavily from right-wing media outlets and even broadcast from Washington DC on the day of the Capitol riots. But who is she?
Hello World
Librarians Are Waging a Quiet War Against International "Data Cartels"
Digital collections put library patrons’ privacy at risk
Pixel Hunt
Mortgage Brokers Sent People’s Estimated Credit, Address, and Veteran Status to Facebook
More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it might be illegal
Hello World
This Journalism Professor Made a NYC Chatbot in Minutes. It Actually Worked
Jonathan Soma on the power and pitfalls of AI and chatbots
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