It’s true: We won first place for general excellence in the small newsroom category and the Gather Award for community-centered journalism at ONA this year! https://themarkup.org/inside-the-markup/2024/09/23/online-news-general-excellence-gather-commun...
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It’s true: We won first place for general excellence in the small newsroom category and the Gather Award for community-centered journalism at ONA this year! https://themarkup.org/inside-the-markup/2024/09/23/online-news-general-excellence-gather-community-award
A quick sample of our work in the past year:
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Last year, our work aimed to fulfill our mission of challenging tech to serve the public good.
We sought close collaboration with communities for reporting on misinfo. The series that resulted, “Languages of Misinformation,” won the Gather Award. https://themarkup.org/series/languages-of-misinformation
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Our data- and software-driven reporting led us to conducting the first field audit of Instagram’s content moderation algorithms.
We found that they routinely limited the reach of posts supporting Palestine and denied users the ability to appeal. https://themarkup.org/automated-censorship/2024/02/25/demoted-deleted-and-denied-theres-more-than-just-shadowbanning-on-instagram
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We investigated the “digital book ban,” where we used data to reveal how web filters across 16 U.S. school districts in 11 states kept students from doing homework, exacerbated inequities, and discriminated ideologically. https://themarkup.org/digital-book-banning/2024/04/13/schools-were-just-supposed-to-block-porn-instead-they-sabotaged-homework-and-censored-suicide-prevention-sites
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We asked NYC’s AI chatbot dozens of questions and found it was frequently wrong, advising visitors to discriminate in housing and to take workers’ tips. https://themarkup.org/news/2024/03/29/nycs-ai-chatbot-tells-businesses-to-break-the-law
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We built tools that help people have more control over tech. One of them allows users to check if X throttles any link, which eventually led to a story with Patreon creators explaining how the delays hurt their income. https://themarkup.org/investigations/2023/09/15/twitter-is-still-throttling-competitors-links-check-for-yourself
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Readers have also used our real-time privacy inspector, Blacklight, to scan websites for trackers nearly 16 million times, exposing abusive tracking by OB-GYNs, online pharmacies, and ed tech companies. https://themarkup.org/series/blacklight
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Congratulations to the entire Markup team again for the recognition of their hard work!
Congratulations, too, to all of this year’s ONA finalists and award winners. And big thanks to ONA for the recognition. https://themarkup.org/inside-the-markup/2024/09/23/online-news-general-excellence-gather-community-award
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@themarkup Congratulations!