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Tomorrow’s newsletter from @Julia is on all things ChatGPT and #AI.Subscribe to get it delivered straight to your inbox: https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world
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With a little bit of investigating, you can find out what the Meta Pixel is doing on your organization’s site.We’ll guide you through the technical bits:...
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#News: The FTC is making moves to stop GoodRx, a telehealth site that offers discounts on prescription meds, from sharing users’ #health#data for advertising.This could have major implications for the...
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Reporter @tfeathers and engineer @simon confirmed that GoodRx—which the FTC filed a proposed court order against this morning—was still sending health data to advertising platforms as of just last...
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#News: Members of Congress demand the IRS investigate tax-filing companies’ sharing of user data with Meta.“We are concerned about the implications [The Markup’s] findings have on the rights of...
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Today’s newsletter comes with some big news: After founding and building The Markup, @Julia is headed to her next adventure. We’re deeply grateful for her vision, which brought engineers and...
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Julia began this newsroom with the idea that striving for vague concepts like “objectivity” or “fairness” can lead to false equivalents.Instead, she trained our team to seek a hypothesis and assemble...
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With those methods, we’ve published hundreds of stories, won multiple awards, built tools for the public, and most important, had impact: Companies changed their practices, Congress introduced bills,...
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That approach has also provoked valuable lessons for journalists and newsrooms at large.Whether it’s showing your work or never giving up, we hope you’ll join us in reflecting on these lessons and...
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We and @STAT found major telehealth startups sharing users’ sensitive info with advertising platforms.A bipartisan group of senators is calling out several of them for failing to protect users’ health...
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Last spring, the New York State legislature passed the *first* U.S. law that would give people the right to fix their phones, tablets, and computers.But Big Tech lobbyists got to work soon after.How...
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Ok now that we have your attention, please look at Big Tech lobbyists’ impact on New York’s #RightToRepair bill.Before ➡️ after
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More details with @grist: https://themarkup.org/news/2023/02/08/how-big-tech-rewrote-the-nations-first-cellphone-repair-law
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We’re curious: If you joined #Mastodon as part of the #TwitterMigration, which platform are you using more?Mastodon > TwitterMastodon = TwitterMastodon < TwitterOther (reply!)
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In @sisiwei’s first edition of our Hello World newsletter, she shares what it was like to tell a room of advertisers to audit their use of pixel tracking. 👀...
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#Job update! To make sure we can review every #reporter application and move forward in the hiring process, there will now be a deadline to apply to this role—next Tuesday at 9 a.m. ET....
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🏠 We’re moving!When our team first set up shop here on Mastodon, we knew that hosting on our own domain was the goal.But we needed some time to figure out how to make it happen. That time has come. (1/3)
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We’ll be migrating to mastodon.themarkup.org. For those curious, we’re using services provided by @mastohost and we only plan to host our own account on this instance. (2/3)
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@mastohost We’ll be initiating the migration process today.We’ll be migrating all of our followers, so you don’t have to do anything to continue following us, but you may see some duplicate posts in...
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