Julia Angwin, Jeff Larson, Lauren Kirchner, and Surya Mattu complete the Black Box series with an analysis of premiums and payouts in California, Illinois, Texas and Missouri that shows that some major insurers charge minority ... Read on ProPublica

D&S affiliate Surya Mattu, with Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., and Seongtaek Lim, continue the Black Box series. Depending on what data they are trained on, machines can “learn” to be biased. That’s what happened in the f... Read on ProPublica

Julia Angwin, Terry Parris Jr., and D&S affiliate Surya Mattu explore what Facebook knows about its users. We built a tool that works with the Chrome Web browser that lets you see what Facebook says it knows about you — yo... Read on ProPublica

D&S affiliate Surya Mattu with Julia Angwin examine how Amazon's shopping algorithm directs customers to buy Amazon or Amazon-affiliated sellers' merchandise, even if products from other sellers on the platform cost much le... Read on ProPublica

D&S fellow Surya Mattu investigated bias in risk assessments, algorithmically generated scores predicting the likelihood of a person committing a future crime. These scores are increasingly used in courtrooms across America... Read on ProPublica

Abstract For decades, The Princeton Review has prepared students for a battery of standardized tests for a price. In some cases, that price varies by ZIP code (or United States postal codes). The Princeton Review's website r... Read on Journal of Technology Science

Julia Angwin, on The Future of Redlining — is a discussion of areas where redlining may be occurring and topics that she may investigate in her work as a journalist at ProPublica. Read more