At a press conference yesterday, the NYC mayor said the city wouldn't pull its chatbot despite it lying to people. His chief advisor compared it to MapQuest: themarkup.org/news/2024/04/0…

This is an bananas NYC story courtesy of our friends The Markup: An AI chatbot touted by City Hall keeps telling biz people to break the law

Can you take workers tips? Can you discriminate? See what chatbot says 👇

thecity.nyc/2024/03/29/ai-…

Lots of my faves last year from Dhruv Mehrotra Gabriel Geiger Justin Braun Eva Constantaras Colin Lecher maddy varner Leonardo Dina Bass and much more! Congrats data journos worldwide

We love a good news Friday: We’re finalists for three Online Journalism Awards for technology reporting, social justice reporting, and our overall newsroom.

Thank you, Online News Association, and congratulations to all the finalists!

How many pulitzers until your workplace is safe? twitter.com/edmundlee/stat…

Happy tax day. Still waiting to see what the IRS does after we uncovered tax prep companies quietly sending personal taxpayer data to Facebook themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/202…

Union work should be done by union employees. twitter.com/MarkupUnion/st…

Last month we revealed how tax preparation sites were sending users' financial data to Facebook.

Now lawmakers including Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders are raising alarms: themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/202…

The sound of millions of swifties becoming antitrust law advocates twitter.com/Ticketmaster/s…