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The Markup Wins ONA Awards for General Excellence and Community-Centered Journalism
The awards honor excellence in digital journalism around the world
Digital Book Banning
School districts all over the country blocked content that sabotaged students’ ability to do homework and limited their health and safety resources.
Digital Book Banning
Frustrated by School Web Filters, One Teenager Created His Own
During early COVID lockdowns, a teen raised $1.8 million in venture funding and built a web filter with a team of data scientists and psychologists that he now hopes will help students safely surf the web
Digital Book Banning
Online Censorship in Schools Leaves Teachers in the Lurch, Too
Educators describe scrapped lesson plans, laborious appeal processes, and digital dysfunction in response to The Markup’s latest investigation
Digital Book Banning
Schools Were Just Supposed To Block Porn. Instead They Sabotaged Homework and Censored Suicide Prevention Sites
The Trevor Project? Blocked. Planned Parenthood? Blocked. NASA? BLOCKED
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How We Investigated Web Censorship in Schools
We requested records from 26 districts in 11 states. Ten turned us down on cybersecurity grounds.
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Students: Investigate Internet Censorship in Your School District
Virtually every public school filters the web, and blocked websites create a paper trail
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Five High Schoolers Describe the Dangers and Frustrations of Censored Web Access
Their schools block information about The Trevor Project, abortion, microplastics, and more
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Does Your School Block These Sites?
If you are a K-12 student, help extend our internet censorship investigation by connecting to your school’s wifi and clicking on websites to test them.