The Markup — Hello World newsletter
Platform algorithms
Digital rights & policy
What can I learn?
Award-winning data journalism with published audit methodologies — the best source for understanding how algorithmic investigations are actually conducted. Their Blacklight privacy tool is a model of accessible audit.
Core insight
Algorithms can be investigated — they leave traces, produce patterns, and can be tested. Journalism and civic tech can hold them to account.
How to use it in daily work
Sharpens your understanding of how algorithmic audits work and what evidence-based critique looks like.
- Reading a Markup investigation gives you a mental model for asking 'what would proof of unfairness actually look like?' — useful when clients describe patterns that feel discriminatory.