Leon Yin

We analyzed more than 800,000 internet service offers in major U.S. cities. Here’s how you can use our data to report local stories

AT&T, Verizon, EarthLink, and CenturyLink disproportionately offered the worst deals to lower-income areas and communities of color across the country—while charging the same for faster speeds in higher-income and Whiter areas

A browser extension that reveals Amazon brand and exclusive products while you shop on the site

We found that Amazon routinely puts its own brands and exclusive products first, above competitors with better ratings and more reviews

Color of Change petition calls Google’s block on advertisers searching for social justice content “unacceptable”

“Black power” and “Black Lives Matter” can’t be used to find videos for ads, but “White power” and “White lives matter” were just fine

Despite committing to dismantling systemic racism, YouTube blocks advertisers from using many racial justice and cultural identity terms to target videos for ads

Novel categorizations and “staining” techniques uncovered how much space on the search results page Google dedicates to itself