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The apocalypse that wasn’t
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders observe that AI's role in 2024 elections wasn't as disastrous as some had feared.
Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online
Kate Klonick and coauthors test the hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to gain traction online.
Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in AI
Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence…
AI Border Surveillance Tech Profits Soar, Human Rights Across the Board Sink
Petra Molnar highlights how surveillance technology firms profit from harsh anti-immigration policies in the US, Canada…
Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad
Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer a potentially optimistic outlook on AI and politics.
‘Facts can’t fix this’
BKC-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga and Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook share their insights on how platforms navigate the…
Democrats flee X for Bluesky amid Musk-Trump alliance
ASML's Jonathan Bellack weighs in on the uptick in Twitter/X users migrating to Bluesky.
Lumen Researcher Interview Series: Phineas Rueckert - Forbidden Stories
Phineas Rueckert, a lead Project Coordinator at Forbidden Stories, discusses his organization's collaborations with…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsResearch Sprints
The BKC Research Sprints are a series of educational programs that bring together emerging scholars from around the…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
Applied Social Media Lab
A new home for technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good…
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year "pop-up" initiative that will address the biggest questions in…
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsNetwork of Interdisciplinary Internet & Society Research Centers
A collaborative initiative focused on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Nymity
Nymity creates a “trustspace” where participants feel free to explore ideas without the pressures of personal…
Featured Topics
See all TopicsEthics and Governance of AI
The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around the…
Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse
The way we communicate online evolves and changes shape rapidly. Through research, the building of tools, and bringing together diverse viewpoints and underrepresented voices, we seek to examine, analyze,…
Technology & the Law
Software, hardware, platforms, and networks are regulated by sometimes conflicting and overlapping sets of laws, policies, and norms. New technologies are constantly creating new frontiers for policymaker…
Governance of Technology & the Internet
Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to build…