Quartz is investigating efforts to spread misinformation or confusion about coronavirus through social media influencers (big and small), and we need your help.
The word “biggest” is carrying a heavy burden.
The algorithm able to understand English best is one designed to learn Chinese.
It’s not just Oscar season. It’s also Pulitzer season.
Here’s a secret: Some of the year’s best investigative journalism will drop this month.
US president Donald Trump describes Rudy Giuliani as a “great crime fighter,” yet almost three years after multiple shortcomings with Giuliani’s corporate website were first pointed out, the president’s personal lawyer has not brought it up to even the most rudimentary security standards.
If your older family members are politically conservative and you are not, here’s a topic you might find safe at the Thanksgiving table: Gold and silver schemes aimed precisely at them.
Facebook’s political ads should be more obvious, less targeted, and more truthful–so says a letter signed by more than 250 employees inside Facebook itself.
Apps designed to help people lose weight, track pregnancy, and have better sex are sharing personal information with third parties, often without making such practices clear to users. Quartz used an intercept tool to test several popular wellness apps and found users’ length of pregnancy and BMI bracket shared with Facebook, Google, and digital marketing agencies. Meanwhile, a sex app quietly shared users’ location data. Some of these apps’ privacy policies were difficult to locate or misleading. The information Quartz found apps sharing with third parties includes:
Want an inside look at Indian politics? Try our new Twitter bot.
Today we are launching the Quartz AI Studio to help journalists at Quartz and other news organizations use machine learning to report their stories.
Voters facing long lines, broken machines, or other impediments to casting their ballots in the US midterm elections can now alert journalists as those issues happen, and try to get the problems fixed.
Today we’re adding a third dimension to our news coverage.
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