JOB ALERT! We’re hiring for multiple roles. Please share the details widely. ⬇️

We’re thrilled to share this news: Lam Thuy Vo will be joining our team as a reporter. Lam brings expertise in data analysis and on-the-ground reporting, as well as a commitment to revealing how systems impact those living on the margins. themarkup.org/inside-the-mar…

UPDATE: Mental health startup Cerebral has admitted to disclosing users’ sensitive health data in violation of HIPAA. We and STAT uncovered the data sharing back in December.

NEW: Changes to an algorithm the government uses to allocate donated livers have benefited California and New York—at the expense of mostly Southern and Midwestern states, and Puerto Rico. With The Washington Post: themarkup.org/organ-failure/…

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Fantastic story by Jon Keegan 🇺🇦 and interactive by Joel Eastwood. It's common knowledge that we're all being targeted for ads. But the level of detail companies are trying to tag people with here is eye-opening. Take a look for yourself.

🚨Generative AI has a serious problem with bias🚨 Over months of reporting, Dina Bass and I looked at thousands of images from Stable Diffusion and found that text-to-image AI takes gender and racial stereotypes to extremes worse than in the real world. 🧵 1/13

New from Colin Lecher and me: Dozens of websites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline—988—are sending visitor data to Facebook. themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/202…

We're hiring at The Markup! 🔸 Journalism Engineer (you don't need to have worked in journalism to apply) 🔸 Data Journalist Know someone who could be great for one of these roles? Please send them the link and encourage them to apply. boards.greenhouse.io/themarkup

When an online ad loads, it's holding a lightning-fast auction for advertisers to bid for your attention. With @ghongsdusit and Jon Keegan 🇺🇦: themarkup.org/privacy/2023/0…

LEAD IN THE BAYOU: After phone companies turned to newer technologies, old cables—sheathed in lead—were often left behind. In cases like this one in Louisiana, they are contaminating the surrounding area with the toxic metal. wsj.com/articles/lead-…

AT&T, Verizon and other telecom giants have long known about a sprawling network of toxic lead cables across the U.S and did little about it Shalini Ramachandran Thomas Gryta John West Coulter Jones Susan Pulliam, w/ graphics by Stephanie Stamm Kara Dapena wsj.com/articles/att-v… via WSJ Graphics

We’re thrilled to welcome some great individuals to our newsroom! Ese Olumhense, Tara GarciaMathewson, and Monique O. Madan as reporters, and soo oh as an editor. Their journalism will challenge technology to serve the public good. themarkup.org/inside-the-mar…

.Jerome Paulos explains the system our team has used to make 300 visualizations and counting. themarkup.org/levelup/2023/0…

Incredible, @ghongsdusit wrote and drew an entire zine!

Here on Twitter (X) and clicking a link to another major social media platform? You may have to wait 60x longer for that page to load than the average wait for other sites. OUR LATEST: themarkup.org/investigations…

This is a fascinating finding!

From Friday: We built a tool to test how long Twitter takes to load external links. We found Twitter throttles the load times of social media competitors. Use the tool and let us know if you can find other throttled sites! themarkup.org/investigations…

What would you do if you couldn’t pay a bill online, complete school work, or search Google because you had inadequate internet service? This is the reality for Black folks in the rural South, where the digital divide is the greatest. Here's my latest: capitalbnews.org/broadband-inte…