Mattu briefed National Press Foundation fellows in November 2022: Data Privacy Act Has Bipartisan Support. But …

Surya Mattu is a Brooklyn-based data journalist, artist and engineer who builds tools to investigate algorithmic systems and how they perpetuate societal biases and inequalities. He leads the Digital Witness Lab at Princeton University. Previously, he was at The Markup where he created Blacklight, a real-time website privacy inspector, and led Citizen Browser, a first-of-its-kind independent audit of Facebook’s recommendation algorithms. His work at The Markup has received public recognition including two Edward Murrow awards and an NABJ award. He was also a 2021 Knight Wallace fellow. Prior to The Markup, he was a contributing researcher at ProPublica, where he worked on Machine Bias, a series that aims to highlight how algorithmic systems can be biased and discriminate against people. Machine Bias was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Explanatory Journalism.