The Breakdown
How Do I Prepare My Phone for a Protest? (Updated 2024)
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
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.
Hello World
Why Governments Need To Take a More Active Role in Regulating AI
Christelle Tessono talks with the Markup about how AI systems are still mostly monitored by the companies that build them
Languages of Misinformation
How I Explained AI and Deepfakes Using Only Basic Vietnamese
Using slides, hand gestures, and the Vietnamese vocabulary of a five-year-old, we talked about fake faces
Digital Book Banning
Online Censorship in Schools Leaves Teachers in the Lurch, Too
Educators describe scrapped lesson plans, laborious appeal processes, and digital dysfunction in response to The Markup’s latest investigation
Hello World
Deepfakes: Did Joe Biden Really Call?
A guide to spotting audio and video deepfakes from a professor who’s studied them for two decades
Privacy
Touring a Rental? A Face Scan May Be Required
With the rise of self-guided tours, many companies are requiring facial recognition to see a property
Hello World
What I Learned While Reporting on School Censorship
Web blockers are having all sorts of unintended consequences for students
Digital Book Banning
Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites
The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED
Show Your WorkDigital Book Banning
How We Investigated Web Censorship in Schools
We requested records from 26 districts in 11 states. Ten turned us down on cybersecurity grounds.
Digital Book Banning
Students: Investigate Internet Censorship in Your School District
Virtually every public school filters the web, and blocked websites create a paper trail
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