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Our Real-World Impact In 2024
The Markup’s reporting led to federal lawsuits, local government reforms, and much more
Soo Oh
Investigative Editor • she/her
Soo Oh is an editor and data journalist. Before The Markup, she was the data editor at Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting. She has reported stories, analyzed data, coded interactive visuals, and built internal tools at the Center for Investigative Reporting, The Wall Street Journal, Vox.com, the Los Angeles Times, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. In 2018, she was a John S. Knight Fellow at Stanford University, where she researched how to better manage and support journalists with technical skills. She currently teaches students how to code as a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism.
(Photograph by Cristian Gonzalez.)
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How Do I Protect My Privacy If I’m Seeking an Abortion?
A guide to keeping your plans private through every step of an abortion in any state, including Florida and South Dakota
Blacklight
Launching Blacklight Query, a Tool to Scan Websites for Privacy at Scale
Inspect batches of websites for user-tracking tech with our new open-source command-line tool
Story Recipes
We Made an Emergency Alert Guide To Help Californians Navigate a Complicated Process. Here’s How To Do This In Any State
CalMatters and The Markup reported on how residents in each of California’s 58 counties can sign up for local emergency alerts, and found a few surprises along the way. Here’s how you can build the same guide in your state
Hello World
How AI Detection Software Turns Professors into Cops, Tech as Systems of World-Making, and More
A conversation with agroecologist Maywa Montenegro
The Breakdown
How to Sign Up for Local Emergency Alerts Before Natural Disasters Strike
We know early warning systems save lives. Give yourself extra time when disasters come your way
Hello World
Rejecting Dogmas Around AI, User Privacy, and Tech Policy
A conversation with AI scientist Jonathan Frankle
Hello World
The ‘Unsettling,’ Nearly Normalized Surveillance Tech Monitoring the U.S.-Mexico Border
“At any given moment, there is something or someone watching you,” sociologist Francisco Lara-García tells The Markup
Hello World
Car Insurance, Cats, and Racial Discrimination
Car insurers in Michigan are not allowed to use race when setting premiums, but Black drivers are still being penalized
Premium Penalty
Michigan’s “Fair and Reasonable” Reforms Allowed Car Insurers to Charge More in Black Neighborhoods
An investigation by The Markup and Outlier Media found lawmakers created loopholes big enough to drive through
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