
Working for an Algorithm
More Than 350 Gig Workers Carjacked, 28 Killed, Over the Last Five Years
Meanwhile, Uber confirms 24,000 alleged physical assaults and threatened assaults against its drivers from 2017 to 2020
Big Tech Is Watching You. We’re Watching Big Tech.
Maddy Varner extracts datasets from public documents and databases to help build a more concrete understanding of how organizations use technology to predict and affect behavior—and the problems in those assumptions.
Before The Markup, she was a researcher at ProPublica, where she was on a team that won a Loeb Award for Beat Reporting in 2017 for “Monetizing Hate,” a series of stories that examined Facebook’s ad practices.
Working for an Algorithm
Meanwhile, Uber confirms 24,000 alleged physical assaults and threatened assaults against its drivers from 2017 to 2020
Citizen Browser
The ads appear as the company faces criticism for limiting content about medication abortions
The Breakdown
Georgia and Alabama laws say gig workers won’t be considered employees
The Breakdown
Turns out, it depends on who you are
News
The bill, backed by the two companies, would prevent drivers from receiving some employee benefits
News
The gig companies and a local Teamsters union helped shape the measure’s language
Working for an Algorithm
Workers say getting sick leave and information on outbreaks can be a struggle
News
The Markup, through public records requests, found more than 20 public agencies using the sometimes-controversial software
Working for an Algorithm
Two Oregon warehouses have been in an active outbreak for nearly 19 months. Elsewhere in the country, warehouse workers report continual cases
Privacy
California requires law enforcement to report the controversial warrants to a state database—but The Markup found massive discrepancies in how they’re reported
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