Citizen Browser
Facebook Said It Would Stop Pushing Users to Join Partisan Political Groups. It Didn’t
According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political group recommendations
Sam Morris
Graphics Editor
Sam Morris was an editorial designer, art director, and developer who helped make complex stories and issues more accessible. He left The Markup in May 2021.
Before joining The Markup, he worked at The Guardian, on both the product and editorial sides.
His work has earned various awards presented by design and journalism organizations, including D&AD, Webby, The Society for News Design, The Society of Publication Designers, Communication Arts, Information Is Beautiful, and more.
Citizen Browser
Biden and Trump Voters Were Exposed to Radically Different Coverage of the Capitol Riot on Facebook
Data from The Markup’s Citizen Browser project shows the different realities Americans inhabited on Facebook last week
Show Your WorkCitizen Browser
How We Built a Facebook Inspector
The Citizen Browser project seeks to illuminate the content Facebook elevates in its users’ feeds
Citizen Browser
In Georgia, Facebook’s Changes Brought Back a Partisan News Feed
Ahead of crucial senate runoffs, Facebook reversed its political ad ban, and the impact was visible on users’ feeds
Google the Giant
Introducing Simple Search
A new browser extension from The Markup
Election 2020
Where You Live in the United States Could Radically Change How You Vote
The U.S. has made progress in election security—but not everywhere
Blacklight
The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website
Trackers piggybacking on website tools leave some site operators in the dark about who is watching or what marketers do with the data
Are Your Country’s Cellphone Plans a Rip-off?
If you live in the U.S. or Canada, the answer is probably yes
Google the Giant
Google’s Top Search Result? Surprise! It’s Google
The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page
Banned Bounty
Quiz: Can You Spot the Banned Amazon Item?
Amazon content moderators have only a few minutes to decide if a product is on the list of nearly 2,000 banned items
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