• Support Us
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
Skip to content
  • Editors’ Picks
  • Features
  • Reading Lists
  • Shortreads
  • Best of
Longreads

Longreads

Longreads : The best longform stories on the web

  • Support Us
Support Us

data

Posted inEditor's Pick

How the AI Industry Profits from Catastrophe

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 6, 2022October 19, 2022

The demand for data labeling in the artificial intelligence industry — tagging videos, sorting photos, and transcribing audio in order to train AI — has created a massive need for cheap labor, leading data-labeling platforms such as Appen to hire low-pay workers in countries like Venezuela, the Philippines, and Kenya to do these tasks. In […]

collage of archived materials, from handwritten letters to vintage photographs
Posted inCulture, Nonfiction, Reading List, Story

What We Remember: A Reading List on Archives

by Hallel Yadin March 23, 2022October 19, 2022

Why do we keep what we keep — and who decides? An archivist digs and collects longreads on how objects and materials shape public memory.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How to Map Nothing

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands April 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“What if we took each sourdough selfie, each Zoom class, each Peloton ride, each Netflix binge and mapped the ecology of resources and services that have made it possible for some of us? And at the same time impossible for others?” On pandemic maps and the Great Pause.

Posted inEditor's Pick

How a Young Activist Is Helping Pope Francis Battle Climate Change

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands February 3, 2021October 19, 2022

“Molly Burhans wants the Catholic Church to put its assets—which include farms, forests, oil wells, and millions of acres of land—to better use. But, first, she has to map them.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

What Is The Internet Doing To Boomers’ Brains?

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 2, 2020October 19, 2022

“Social media platforms are sucking a generation into a misinformation rabbit hole.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Dying Inside

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 19, 2020October 19, 2022

4,998 inmates died in U.S. jails without getting their day in court. Reuters investigates the fatalities in America’s biggest jails.

Posted inEditor's Pick

“I Have Blood on My Hands”: A Whistleblower Says Facebook Ignored Global Political Manipulation

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands September 15, 2020October 19, 2022

An internal memo from fired data scientist Sophie Zhang explains how Facebook knew that politicians around the world were engaged in “inauthentic activity” on the social network in order to manipulate voters.

Posted inEditor's Pick

Double-Double Tracking: How Tim Hortons Knows Where You Sleep, Work and Vacation

by Carolyn Wells June 22, 2020October 19, 2022

“Even just the graph of events, I can see that you start heading out from work on Fridays at 2 p.m … Like, if I wanted to assassinate you, this would be absolutely perfect.”

Posted inNonfiction

How Google Discovered the Value of Surveillance

by Longreads September 5, 2019January 27, 2023

In 2002, still reeling from the dot-com crash, Google realized they’d been harvesting a very valuable raw material — your behavior.

Posted inBooks, Science & Nature, Story, Technology

Yentl Syndrome: A Deadly Data Bias Against Women

by Longreads June 21, 2019October 19, 2022

The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.

Posts navigation

1 2 3 Older posts
Longreads
  • Twitter
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • Tumblr
  • Home
  • About
  • Membership
  • FAQ
  • Submissions
  • Privacy Policy
  • Privacy Notice for California Users
  • Press
  • RSS Feed
  • Opt-out preferences

Part of the

family

© 2023 Longreads. Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic Privacy Policy
Manage Cookie Consent
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behavior or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes. The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
Manage options Manage services Manage vendors Read more about these purposes
View preferences
{title} {title} {title}