Challenging technology to serve the public good.
Maria Puertas was The Markup’s social media manager, executing the day-to-day promotion of our reporting and investigations. She left The Markup in June 2024.
Prior to The Markup, Maria worked at the American Civil Liberties Union, where she drove strategy on platforms like Instagram and TikTok. Before that, she worked in various roles for digital agencies and political campaigns.
Maria is interested in how individuals navigate and develop online communities, a topic she has researched and is continuing to observe here at The Markup.
Languages of Misinformation
The Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combats vaccine misinformation, translates for fellow migrants in court, and works with linguists to create new Indigenous words.
Languages of Misinformation
El Concejo de Pueblos Originarios combate la desinformación sobre las vacunas, realiza traducciones para las y los compañeros migrantes en la corte, y trabaja con lingüistas para crear nuevas palabras indígenas.
Languages of Misinformation
Sonia Ohlala borrows heavily from right-wing media outlets and even broadcast from Washington DC on the day of the Capitol riots. But who is she?
Pixel Hunt
More than 200 national and regional lenders share sensitive user data with Facebook. Experts say it might be illegal
Hello World
Jonathan Soma on the power and pitfalls of AI and chatbots
The Breakdown
Simple steps to take before hitting the streets
Hello World
Christelle Tessono talks with the Markup about how AI systems are still mostly monitored by the companies that build them
Languages of Misinformation
Using slides, hand gestures, and the Vietnamese vocabulary of a five-year-old, we talked about fake faces
Digital Book Banning
Educators describe scrapped lesson plans, laborious appeal processes, and digital dysfunction in response to The Markup’s latest investigation
Hello World
A guide to spotting audio and video deepfakes from a professor who’s studied them for two decades
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