Marché Arends is a South African independent investigative journalist based in Cape Town, South Africa. Her work lies at the intersection of Big Tech accountability and labour in the Majority World, with a current focus on AI hype and AI-facilitated workplace surveillance in Africa. In 2024 she was selected as a Pulitzer Center AI Accountability Fellow and conducted a year-long investigation into the exploitative labour practices of micro-tasking companies recruiting African workers to train Large Language Models. Her writing has been published in Tech Policy Press, Africa Uncensored, The Continent, The Africa Report, Semafor Africa, The Daily Maverick and elsewhere.