Investigations

Organ Failure

A Death Sentence: Native Americans Shut Out of the Nation’s Liver Transplant System

Despite being more likely to die of liver disease, Native Americans are far less likely to make the transplant list than White people

Privacy

Each Facebook User is Monitored by Thousands of Companies

A new study looks at who is sending information about your online activity to Facebook

Machine Learning

Plagiarism Detection Tools Offer a False Sense of Accuracy

The tools that likely brought down Harvard president Claudine Gay are improperly used on students all the time

Pixel Hunt

Facebook Watches Teens Online As They Prep for College

An investigation by The Markup found Meta’s pixel tracking students from kindergarten to college

News

Twitter Is Throttling Patreon Links, Creators Say It Undermines Their Livelihood

Markup readers helped uncover the link delays, which also affect WhatsApp and Messenger

Twitter Is Still Throttling Competitors’ Links—Check for Yourself

Loading links to Bluesky, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack takes far longer than to other sites. We built a tool so you can check any domain you like

Machine Learning

False Alarm: How Wisconsin Uses Race and Income to Label Students “High Risk”

The Markup found the state’s decade-old dropout prediction algorithms don’t work and may be negatively influencing how educators perceive students of color

Organ Failure

How a Group of Health Executives Transformed the Liver Transplant System

Hospitals in New York and California engineered a policy shift that let them source livers from hundreds of miles away

Organ Failure

Poorer States Suffer Under New Organ Donation Rules, As Livers Go to Waste

Life-saving liver transplants have plummeted in some Southern and Midwestern states with higher death rates from liver disease, while New York and California have made big gains

Investigation

L.A.’s Scoring System for Subsidized Housing Gives Black and Latino People Experiencing Homelessness Lower Priority Scores

An investigation by The Markup found racial disparities in L.A.’s intake system for unhoused people