Challenging technology to serve the public good.
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.)
Still Loading
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
An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college
Hello World
Nearly 700 vendors showcased police tech from tracking devices disguised as Newport cigarettes to window-breaking drones
News
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
LevelUp
A guide on anonymizing your phone, so you can use it without it using you
Neighborhood Watch
An investigation by The Markup found that Ring’s social platform funnels suspicions from residents in Whiter and wealthier areas of Los Angeles directly to police
Neighborhood Watch
We investigated Ring for months. Here are the best privacy options for prospective and existing customers
Show Your WorkNeighborhood Watch
In Los Angeles, residents in Whiter and wealthier areas post more often on Neighbors, but do not report a higher crime rate
Neighborhood Watch
Over 18 months, one LAPD officer received more than 10,000 emails from the social platform affiliated with Amazon’s Ring
Working for an Algorithm
“You basically just hope that nothing goes wrong,” a nurse said about a shift with the app Clipboard
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