person
Julia Angwin
Investigative journalist; ex-ProPublica; The Markup founder
Investigative journalist; co-founded The Markup. Pulitzer winner whose 2016 ProPublica investigation 'Machine Bias' kicked off mainstream criminal-justice algorithm coverage.
current Journalist, Independent / NYT contributing writer
past Founder, Editor-in-chief, The Markup; Senior Reporter, ProPublica
Strategy positions
Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues algorithmic systems already cause large-scale harm in criminal justice, hiring, and credit; calls for adversarial journalism and audit infrastructure rather than corporate self-policing.
“Machine bias: there's software used across the country to predict future criminals. And it's biased against blacks.”
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.