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Leon Yin

@leonyin
20 posts
2025-01-23
Bloomberg reviewed +1K hours of YouTube vids from 9 popular streamers and podcasters who cater to American men. We analyzed 2 yrs of guests and transcripts to see how they discussed political topics and understand their role as a new mainstream info hub https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2025-01-23 View on X
Bloomberg

An analysis of two years of episodes by nine prominent podcasters shows how they became mainstream sources for young men and rallied support for Trump's agenda

In an effort to understand … John Podhoretz / Commentary Magazine : The Trump Immigration Fire Hose David Aaron / Just Security : The Just Security Podcast: What Just Happened Seri...

2024-10-13
NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

Uber and Lyft don't share data on lockouts, so we built a WhatsApp tipline and shared it with worker groups, web forums, and distributed flyers to drivers directly. We crowdsourced +7K screenshots from <900 drivers (~1% of registered NYC drivers). https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

The core promise of the gig-economy is flexibility. However, Uber and Lyft locked out drivers nearly every hour of every day w/ no notice. Including during peak hours and Uber “open access times” when drivers are told they can work. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-10-13 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

Even If You're Not One Johan / The Rideshare Guy : Weekly Roundup: Rideshare Drivers Use Teslas as Makeshift Robotaxis Katie Johnston / The Boston Globe : 'To me, this isn't a full...

2024-10-12
The core promise of the gig-economy is flexibility. However, Uber and Lyft locked out drivers nearly every hour of every day w/ no notice. Including during peak hours and Uber “open access times” when drivers are told they can work. https://www.bloomberg.com/... [image]
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

NEW INVESTIGATION: Uber and Lyft locked drivers out of work to game a NYC minimum wage law. We crowdsourced screenshots, monitored surge pricing and ran financial models to reveal the devastating impact on drivers. w/ @natlungfy @A_W_Gordon @DeniseDSLu https://www.bloomberg.com/...
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

Uber and Lyft don't share data on lockouts, so we built a WhatsApp tipline and shared it with worker groups, web forums, and distributed flyers to drivers directly. We crowdsourced +7K screenshots from <900 drivers (~1% of registered NYC drivers). https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]
2024-10-12 View on X
Bloomberg

Investigation: Uber and Lyft lockouts for 800+ NYC drivers occurred almost every hour of every day, saving the companies hundreds of millions of dollars in pay

One August morning in south Brooklyn, Mohamed Mohamed did what he's done almost every day for nine years: He woke up at 5 a.m. …

2024-03-08
New: Employers and HR vendors are using AI chatbots to interview and screen job applicants. We found that OpenAI's GPT discriminates against names based on race and gender when ranking resumes. W/ @daveyalba and @Leonardonclt gift link: https://www.bloomberg.com/... [video]
2024-03-08 View on X
Bloomberg

Tests show GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 systematically produce biases that disadvantage protected groups, based on their names, when screening and ranking job candidates

Recruiters are eager to use generative AI, but a Bloomberg experiment found bias against job candidates based on their names alone

2021-04-10
See part one of our investigation into YouTube's keyword blocklist for ad buyers here + thread: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-04-10 View on X
The Markup

YouTube blocks advertisers from using terms like “Black Lives Matter” to find videos to advertise against but was letting them use phrases like “White power”

with a tiny fraction of the budget and workforce Google has at their disposal—are able to discover how hate groups continue to operate on these platforms, while the company itself ...

2021-02-15
New from me and @alfredwng for @TheMarkup: Facebook said it continued to recommend political groups due to “technical issues”. Please stand by. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-02-15 View on X
OneZero

What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage

Social networks would love to show users less political content.  Here's why that's a problem.

In Aug, FB's internal researchers urged leadership to stop rec'ing a group that contained “death threats against Black Lives Matter activists and members of Congress”. This group continued to be rec'd and grew by 27K members between Dec 1 and Jan 19. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-02-15 View on X
OneZero

What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage

Social networks would love to show users less political content.  Here's why that's a problem.

Activists told us FB's decision to algorithmically remove “politics” from the site would be an uphill battle. @evan_greer from @fightfortheftr said this would likely, “undermine activist social movements and disproportionately silence marginalized people”. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-02-15 View on X
OneZero

What we want from Facebook and other platforms is not less politics but less of a distortionary effect on politics caused by an algorithmic bias toward outrage

Social networks would love to show users less political content.  Here's why that's a problem.

2021-01-20
Among the top 100 Groups FB's rec sys pushed to the 508 Trump voters in our panel: calls to violence against elected officials, conspiracy theories, and logistics for attending DC on the day of the insurrection. https://themarkup.org/...
2021-01-20 View on X
The Markup

Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”

According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations

We analyzed Facebook Group recs (fb[.]com/groups/discover) for +1.9K users throughout Dec. We found 12 political groups in the top 100 most commonly rec'd Groups. We ran the numbers again by how users voted in 2020... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-20 View on X
The Markup

Data from Facebook users: 12 political groups were in the top 100 recommended in Jan.; FB said it would not recommend “political content or social issue groups”

According to Citizen Browser data, the platform especially peppered Trump voters with political grouprecommendations

2021-01-06
Building third-party datasets is essential. FB does everything it can to make this as hard as possible. Some of the measures they took to make this as hard as possible are mentioned in our appendix: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
Axios

Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections

Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said...

Building third-party datasets is essential. FB does everything it can to make this as hard as possible. Some of the measures they took to make this as hard as possible are mentioned in our appendix: https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
The Markup

Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban

“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.c...

I developed automated redaction software with @mynameisfiber to scrub personal identifiers (pink) from the FB feed... Turns out FB is all identifiers? https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
Axios

Facebook says it will resume its political ad ban in Georgia after the polls close in the Georgia runoff elections

Following the Georgia runoff elections, the Facebook ban that restricts ads on social issues, elections and politics nationwide will be reimplemented in the state, the company said...

I developed automated redaction software with @mynameisfiber to scrub personal identifiers (pink) from the FB feed... Turns out FB is all identifiers? https://twitter.com/...
2021-01-06 View on X
The Markup

Study of 58 Facebook users' feeds in Georgia found partisan content elbowed out traditional news sites after Facebook reversed its political ad ban

“partisan content quickly elbowed out news sites.” @corintxt's first for The Markup, built on the Citizen Browser project (see credits!) https://themarkup.org/... https://twitter.c...

2020-07-28
New from @adrjeffries and myself. We develop a taxonomy for ~all the things~ found in Google Search results, and a novel method to estimate how much space Google gives its own properties on mobile. https://themarkup.org/...
2020-07-28 View on X
The Markup

Study of 15K+ recent popular queries finds Google devoted 41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and “direct answers”

The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page

Happy to be wrapping up a 10-month investigation. (right before the U.S. anti-trust hearings) https://twitter.com/...
2020-07-28 View on X
The Markup

Study of 15K+ recent popular queries finds Google devoted 41% of the first page of search results on mobile devices to its own properties and “direct answers”

The search engine dedicated almost half of the first page of results in our test to its own products, which dominated the coveted top of the page