Inspect Element
Description: Leon Yin is an award-winning investigative data journalist. He reports on technology and monopoly. He has reported on OpenAI, Amazon, Google, YouTube, Facebook, Meta, AT&T, Verizon, CenturyLink and EarthLink. He also writes Inspect Element, a practioner's guide to auditing algorithms
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Leon Yin is an award-winning data journalist at Bloomberg. He builds datasets and develops methods to investigate the social impacts of technology. He writes Inspect Element : a practioner's guide to auditing algorithms and hypothesis-driven investigations. His work has been cited by legislators , the academy , and popular media . In 2022, he received a Gerald Loeb Award for the series "Amazon's Advantage". Leon got his start in news at The Markup , and his start in research writing Fortran scripts at NASA
Still Loading (2022) Aaron Sankin and I found four ISPs charge the same price for drastically different internet speeds based on where you live. In cities across the U.S., neighborhoods that were historically redlined, lower-income, and had the highest concentration of people of color were disproportionately asked to overpay for slow speeds. Building off a technique by Princeton researchers , I found and used undocumented APIs to collect +1M internet plans. I merged socioeconomic data from the U.S. Census a
Inspect Element