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The Markup

@themarkup · New York, NY · joined 17 Sep 2018

Challenging technology to serve the public good. Send tips: https://t.co/yv1m5SzbDP. Subscribe: https://t.co/t3INg1q8dS. Support: https://t.co/Ps92EHohDT. Bluesky: https://t.co/dxoOXljZbD

45 600Followers
667Following
7 842Posts total
11.6KViews on collected posts

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@themarkup @AnissadMedia @WordInBlack Important and thought-provoking read. It’s crucial we keep questioning outdated medical algorithms that reinforce bias progress in healthcare means fairness in every calculation. Just followed you @themarkup let’s be mutuals 34 views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
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In July 2022, the United Network for Organ Sharing prohibited transplant hospitals from using race-based eGFR calculations. But many physicians and hospital systems are fighting to keep race-adjusted algorithms. https://t.co/aHYuWqCUxv 📝 @AnissadMedia & @WordInBlack https://t.co
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Millions of people across the United States are expected to take part in “No Kings” protests against the Trump administration Saturday. Whether you’re going to protest, counter-protest or just watch, here are some simple steps to take to prepare your phone https://t.co/WngreLHxNo 1K views · 2 likes · 2 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
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As of March 2025, there are 42 risk calculators, 15 medications, five medical devices, five lab test results, and one therapy recommendation that still use race and ethnicity to some capacity in medical decision making. https://t.co/aHYuWqCUxv 📝 @AnissadMedia & @WordInBlack http
“A lot of these tools were done as a well-intentioned progressive effort to do well by Black patients, in the spirit of personalized medicine… This was seen as a progressive pro-race justice thing to do. What people didn’t do carefully enough was to see how these tools actually operated.” David Jones, a trained psychiatrist and the A. Bernard Ackerman, professor of the Culture of Medicine at Harvard University.
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The eGFR, or estimated glomerular filtration rate, is an equation that estimates the percentage of kidney function someone has. For Black people, doctors would increase the value by a few points, simply based on race. https://t.co/aHYuWqCUxv 📝 @AnissadMedia 📸 @RitasView_ https
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How can I protect my data from these trackers? We have tested some web extensions and tools that can stop trackers mentioned in the story from leaking your data: https://t.co/mmj4cKbRV1 680 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
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State exchanges aren’t the only health sites that have sent medical information to social media companies. In the past, we looked into dozens of hospital websites and found they sent user info to Meta. Read more: https://t.co/T2LlPM3oSj 686 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 0 replies Open on X →
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The data being shared to third parties include one’s drug prescriptions, dosages and names of doctors and hospitals they had visited, along with whether someone is pregnant, blind, or disabled. https://t.co/Xf2wy6JYms 59 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
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Despite giving various responses to questions about the tracking, all four exchanges said individually identifiable info wasn’t shared. But trackers we found logged details like one’s operating system, browser, device, and times of visit. https://t.co/Xf2wy6Kwc0 48 views · 2 likes · 0 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →
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NEW: State healthcare sites around the country have been quietly sending sensitive user data to Google and LinkedIn. https://t.co/Xf2wy6Kwc0 6.1K views · 31 likes · 18 reposts · 5 replies Open on X →
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We scanned the websites of all 19 states that independently operate their own online health exchange, and found four states, Nevada, Maine, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts, exposed users’ sensitive health info. https://t.co/Xf2wy6JYms 89 views · 3 likes · 1 reposts · 1 replies Open on X →

Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

8917 Jun
6.1K
48
59
686
680
69716 Oct
83817 Oct
1K
1.4K20 Oct
3423 Oct

Last 11 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

5.62%17 Jun
0.89%
6.25%
5.08%
0.29%
0.44%
0.43%16 Oct
0.24%17 Oct
0.40%
0.85%20 Oct
14.71%23 Oct

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.

What the audience does

Likes46.2%54 in total
Reposts24.8%29 in total
Replies10.3%12 in total
Quotes0.9%1 in total
Bookmarks17.9%21 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

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