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The Markup’s investigation into racial disparities in Los Angeles’s intake system for unhoused people has won a 2024 Sigma Award.
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The Markup’s investigation into racial disparities in L.A. housing intake system has won a Sigma Award. The Markup was the first news organization to obtain breakdowns of more than 130,000 “vulnerability” scores assigned to unhoused people in L.-A.

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1. Ant-Man. 2. Ant-Man and the Wasp. 3. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
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1. Ant-Man 2. Ant-Man and the Wasp 3. Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania

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Two investigations in The Markup’s Pixel Hunt series are finalists for the 2024 NIHCM award.
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Two investigations in The Markup’s [Pixel Hunt] series are finalists for the [2024 National Institute for Health Care Management Foundation Data-Driven Storytelling Award. Each reporting effort resulted in tangible impact, from lawsuits to companies removing the pixel after we alerted them.

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L.S. Toy transforms economics, legality, currency, and surveillance into system-driven conceptual art built for a tech-structured world.
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L.S. Toy is a London-based conceptual artist who merges economics, legality, currency systems, and conflict architecture into procedural artworks. With a dual background in Economics (LSE) and Fine Art (RCA), he builds projects that function like financial instruments, legal artifacts, or system-level documents. Operating outside traditional galleries—often in warehouses—Toy challenges how value, legitimacy, and power are constructed in a tech-driven world. His art behaves less like painting and more like system engineering.

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Shifting societal norms, technological advances, and the chaos of world events mean we may never reach an equilibrium where content moderation is solved.
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To moderate billions of posts, many social media platforms first compress posts into bite-sized pieces of text that algorithms can process quickly. These compact blurbs, called “hashes,” look like a short combination of letters and numbers, but one hash can represent a user’s entire post.

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In our experiments, we posted comments designed to violate Instagram policies on spam and bullying to our test accounts to trigger deletions and review requests
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In comments to us, Lever, Meta’s spokesperson, said that the platform has indeed experienced a rise in reported content since the beginning of the Israel–Hamas war, implying that it has created an especially challenging environment for content moderation. Instagram is clearly trying to adapt; it has changed its processes multiple times in response to users’ reactions to how it’s treating the war on the platform

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Parents try to sidestep Australia’s social media under-16 bans in order to allow children to continue using these platforms. Why the ban matters
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It’s will be interesting to see how many parents try to sidestep Australia’s social media under-16 bans for thier childen. Hundreds of educated professionals can’t all be wrong.

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I spoke with Phillips and Milner about how people can better regulate their emotions while scrolling, and to know when to pause and take a breath
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Phillips and Milner—who teach media literacy at University of Oregon and College of Charleston, respectively—have spent their academic careers looking at toxic effects of online culture in books like The Ambivalent Internet and This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things.