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Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Joel Eastwood is a visualizations engineer who transforms data into compelling graphics and interactive websites.
Before joining The Markup, Joel was a graphics editor with The Wall Street Journal’s investigations team and, before that, a data journalist at the Toronto Star.
Joel’s graphics were part of the Journal’s 2019 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. His work has also contributed to two Pulitzer Prize finalists, a Worth Bingham Prize entry, a Gerald Loeb finalist, a Data Visualization of the Year award, and eight awards from the Society for News Design.
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Machine Learning
Stanford study found AI detectors are biased against non-native English speakers
Privacy
In mere milliseconds, online advertisers scrutinize your personal data and bid for your eyeballs
Privacy
A spreadsheet on ad platform Xandr’s website revealed a massive collection of “audience segments” used to target consumers based on highly specific, sometimes intimate information and inferences
Hello World
We searched far and wide for a map that respects your privacy
Still Loading
Explore The Markup’s interactive map to see where AT&T, CenturyLink, and Verizon offered only slow internet speeds in major U.S. cities
Machine Learning
The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color
Organ Failure
Life-saving liver transplants have plummeted in some Southern and Midwestern states with higher death rates from liver disease, while New York and California have made big gains
Show Your WorkOrgan Failure
We found that new requirements led to plummeting transplants in some poorer states while New York and California saw big gains
Pixel Hunt
An investigation by The Markup and STAT found 49 out of 50 telehealth websites sharing health data via Big Tech’s tracking tools
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