User:Yd003/Evaluate an Article

Which article are you evaluating?
2020 California Proposition 22

Why you have chosen this article to evaluate?
I have been tracking what has been happening with Prop-22 for the past couple years. The intersection of the emerging gig economy with policymaking captured my interest for a multitude of reasons - technology is fascinating, learning to apply it in the right context is another thing, and finally regulating it is the biggest challenge. Prop-22 was a particularly interesting case of this, one where I also observed how Big Tech companies interact with policymakers, the media and how power concentrated in the hands of few manifests itself.

Evaluate the article
Everything in the article generally seemed related to the topic, however I did feel some areas portrayed false equivalences. For example, under background I found the two paragraphs mentioning Uber's statistics regarding the effects of Prop-22 in addition to the allusion to the op-ed written by Uber CEO to be not as relevant. If they were to be included, it would be critical to highlight the contentious literature on some of the matters to balance viewpoints. While the claims are accredited to Uber, implicitly indicating some bias to the attentive reader, since there there is no counterweight to the information a reader is left to conclude based on that information solely. Furthermore, some of the sources cited (number 18 referring to an article by the Guardian) are not primary sources for the information - rather, the Guardian article cites another news article which ultimately gets the value from a medium article posted through Uber's account by an Economist at Uber - far from unbiased.

Not much can be found on the Talk page of the article beyond a single comment requesting for clarification on the format to record something. In the history of the article there are some edits taking down portions citing from non-reliable sources. However, the portions drawing from Uber's newsroom mentioned above have not been changed since the article was first created.