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Enough digression, on to investigation.

From the New York Times, Sept. 23:

The Markup, dedicated to investigating applied scientific discipline together with its consequence on society, volition endure led past times 2 one-time ProPublica journalists. Craig Newmark gave $20 meg to assist fund the operation. 

When the investigative journalist Julia Angwin worked for ProPublica, the nonprofit tidings organisation became known equally “big tech’s scariest watchdog.” 

By partnering alongside programmers together with information scientists, Ms. Angwin pioneered the operate of studying large tech’s algorithms — the cloak-and-dagger codes that bring an enormous touching on on everyday American life. Her findings shed lite on how companies similar Facebook were creating tools that could endure used to promote racial bias, fraudulent schemes together with extremist content. 

Now, alongside a $20 meg gift from the Craigslist founder Craig Newmark, she together with her partner at ProPublica, the information journalist Jeff Larson, are starting The Markup, a tidings site dedicated to investigating applied scientific discipline together with its consequence on society. Sue Gardner, one-time caput of the Wikimedia Foundation, which hosts Wikipedia, volition endure The Markup’s executive director. Ms. Angwin together with Mr. Larson said that they would hire 2 dozen journalists for its New York part together with that stories would source going upwardly on the website inwards early on 2019. The grouping has also raised $2 meg from the John S. together with James L. Knight Foundation, together with $1 meg collectively from the Ford Foundation, the John D. together with Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, together with the Ethics together with Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative.

Ms. Angwin compares tech to canned food, an invention that took around fourth dimension to endure seen alongside to a greater extent than scrutiny.

“When canned nutrient came out, it was amazing,” said Ms. Angwin, who volition endure the site’s editor inwards chief. “You could bring peaches when they were out of season. There was a whole menstruation of America where every recipe called for canned soup. People went crazy for canned food. And later xxx years, xl years, people were like, ‘Huh, wait.’

“That is what’s happened alongside technology,” Ms. Angwin said, calling the 2016 election a tipping point. “And I’m together with then glad we’ve woken up.”

The site volition explore 3 wide investigative categories: how profiling software discriminates against the hapless together with other vulnerable groups; cyberspace wellness together with infections similar bots, scams together with misinformation; together with the awesome ability of the tech companies. The Markup volition release all its stories nether a creative common license together with then other organizations tin laissez passer on notice republish them, equally ProPublica does....

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