News
Whistleblowing While Black: How Truth-Telling Changes the Careers of Black Women in Tech
Black women whistleblowers not only jeopardize their professional prospects, experts say, but often face more intense backlash
Ko Bragg
Investigative Editor
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.
Machine Learning
Teachers Are Using AI to Create New Worlds, Help Students with Homework, and Teach English
Around the world, these seven teachers are making AI work for them and their students
Hello World
Bad Internet? Good Chance You’ll Miss a Key NFL Playoff Game This Weekend
The real contest may not be the Dolphins versus the reigning champ Chiefs, but how Peacock’s streaming wars fare in parts of the country with low connectivity
The Markup’s Year in Illustration: 2023
Some of our most compelling illustrations that we published this year
Year in Review
The Stories that Made Us Jealous in 2023
A look at 10 articles we wish we had published this year
Machine Learning
We’re Not Living a “Predicted” Life: Student Perspectives on Wisconsin’s Dropout Algorithm
Wisconsin took down its dropout predictions after a Markup investigation. Here’s what two students we featured have to say
Still Loading
What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South
Across the rural South, about 38% of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than White people in the same region and the national average
Pixel Hunt
Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College
An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college
Hello World
I Went to the Real ‘Cop Con.’ Here’s The Tech Police Are Testing.
Nearly 700 vendors showcased police tech from tracking devices disguised as Newport cigarettes to window-breaking drones
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The Tech at ‘Cop Con’: Cigarette Carton Trackers, VR for School Shootings, and ‘Peacekeeper Batons’
The International Association of Chiefs of Police brings police leadership and tech vendors together at its annual conference, where clear trends about the future of law enforcement emerged
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