Angwin said elsewhere that when she approached Gardner to be involved, Gardner said it would only work if she was CEO. To me, a statement like that is at least

Angwin said elsewhere that when she approached Gardner to be involved, Gardner said it would only work if she was CEO. To me, a statement like that is at least a yellow flag about collaboration and control issues. In a normal publication, editorial has to do some things they might not like in order to meet business objectives—-like crank out stories about Game of Thrones or whatever is trending on Reddit so that they can maintain ad views. The whole point of The Markup was that it was not supposed to be a normal publication. That’s why Craig and those foundations funded it. The whole point of the site was unique, high quality editorial content you could not get anywhere else. So to me at least, the reaction of the editorial team is a big indication this was a bad move.