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Stitching Your Own Safety Net
Black kids in Wisconsin are supporting each other in ways the state hoped an algorithm would
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Ko Bragg is a writer and editor based in and focused on the U.S. South—Mississippi in particular. Before The Markup, she was the Race & Place Editor at Scalawag, where she launched Pop Justice, a newsletter on how popular culture warps our understanding of policing and justice. Prior to that, she was a general assignment reporter at The 19th.
You can find her work in The Atlantic, “Frontline,” Harper’s Bazaar, Columbia Journalism Review, Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting, and more.
(Photograph by Patricia E. Sánchez.)
Hello World
Black kids in Wisconsin are supporting each other in ways the state hoped an algorithm would
Machine Learning
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Pixel Hunt
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Working for an Algorithm
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