Hello World
An Essential Guide For Mindful Posting
A conversation with Whitney Phillips and Ryan Milner about how their book on teens’ responsible social media use has important lessons for digital denizens of all ages
Aaron Sankin
Investigative Reporter
Aaron Sankin reports on the intersection of technology and inequality. While at The Markup, he has focused on issues ranging from the digital divide and social media platform governance to law enforcement technology and car insurance regulation.
Before The Markup, he covered online extremism for the Center for Investigative Reporting, where he launched the Hate Report newsletter and co-created the Hate Sleuths citizen journalism initiative. Before that, he was a senior staff writer at the Daily Dot and a founding editor of the Huffington Post’s San Francisco vertical.
Aaron’s reporting has won various journalism awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the National Association of Black Journalists Salute to Excellence Award, the Sigma Award, and the SABEW Association for Business Journalists Award. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Motley Fool, and Gizmodo.
Aaron uses he/him pronouns.
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Los Angeles Becomes First U.S. City to Outlaw Digital Discrimination
A Markup investigation in 2022 found households in L.A.’s poorest neighborhoods were disproportionately asked to pay high prices for slow internet service
Prediction: Bias
Senators Demand Justice Department Halt Funding to Predictive Policing Programs
The Markup's investigations have shown how a predictive policing algorithm was both discriminatory and inaccurate
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Just Accept the Dang Software Update
Installing patches right away will help keep you safe from hackers
How Certain Algorithms to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed
18th-century German forest management explains why government websites make you want to pull your hair out
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What It’s Like Living With Limited Access to Internet in the Black Rural South
Across the rural South, about 38% of Black households don’t have home internet, a higher percentage than White people in the same region and the national average
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FCC Approves Rules to Prevent ‘Digital Discrimination’
Congress tasked the FCC with closing the digital divide. Here’s what the agency’s doing
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The Problems Biden’s AI Order Must Address
The Markup gives a section-by-section breakdown of the summarized executive order on artificial intelligence
Hello World
How to Use Reported Crime Data to Actually Prevent Crime
Ask why crimes happen where they do
Show Your WorkPrediction: Bias
How We Assessed the Accuracy of Predictive Policing Software
We found that Geolitica’s crime prediction algorithm had a success rate of less than 1% in Plainfield, New Jersey
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