An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

Hundreds of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform were left unable to work after mass account suspensions caused by a suspected glitch in the e-commerce giant’s payments system.

“The Turk” was a famous hoax perpetrated in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. According to the Wikipedia article on “The Turk” the hoax consisted of a “maplewood cabinet 4 feet long by 2 feet deep and 3 ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in the ...