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Julia Angwin

Founder

Julia Angwin founded The Markup to produce meaningful data-centered journalism about technology and the people affected by it. She left The Markup in February 2023.

Before founding The Markup, she led investigative teams at ProPublica and The Wall Street Journal. She is the author of “Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance” (Times Books, 2014) and “Stealing MySpace: The Battle to Control the Most Popular Website in America” (Random House, March 2009). She has a B.A. in mathematics from The University of Chicago and an MBA from Columbia University.

She is a winner and two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in journalism.

Julia’s OpenPGP key fingerprint is F292 E93A 86B3 1713 05A6 FE9F 85C9 09BB C664 D201.

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Hello World

Journalistic Lessons for the Algorithmic Age

A farewell letter from Julia Angwin

February 4, 2023 08:00 ET

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Hello World

Decoding the Hype About AI

A conversation with Arvind Narayanan

January 28, 2023 03:08 ET

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Hello World

The Alarming Rise of Dangerous Speech

A conversation with Susan Benesch

January 21, 2023 08:00 ET

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Hello World

Will Europe’s Privacy Bill of Rights Ever Truly Be Enforced?

A conversation with Tanya O’Carroll

January 14, 2023 08:00 ET

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Hello World

Back into the Trenches of the Crypto Wars

A conversation with Meredith Whittaker

January 7, 2023 08:00 ET

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Pixel Hunt

Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You

The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook

April 28, 2022 08:00 ET

Show Your WorkPixel Hunt

How We Built a Meta Pixel Inspector

The first large-scale, crowdsourced study that monitors how Meta tracks people across the internet

April 28, 2022 08:00 ET

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Show Your WorkCitizen Browser

How We Investigated Facebook’s Most Popular Content

We found that Facebook's popularity metric obscures how well ultra-conservative content does on the platform

November 18, 2021 08:00 ET

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Citizen Browser

Facebook Isn’t Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform

Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns

November 18, 2021 08:00 ET

Citizen Browser

Germany’s Far-Right Political Party, the AfD, Is Dominating Facebook This Election

Ahead of a national vote this month, Citizen Browser data shows that posts promoting the AfD party appeared more than three times as often as rivals'

September 22, 2021 08:00 ET

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