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Ads Are Impersonating Government Websites in Google Results, Despite Ban
Rebecca Tushnet discusses advertising law with The Markup
People of color have a new fight: techno-racism
Mutale Nkonde discusses techno-racism and facial recognition software with CNN.
Forum Logic: Topical, with a side of toxicity
Looking back at topic-based social networks may offer one way forward for social media
With a Covid-19 vaccine patent waiver likely, time to rethink global intellectual property rules
An op-ed by Ruth Okediji
Race, Policing, and The Limits of Social Science
Lily Hu argues that studying the social world requires more than deference to data
Fix Section 230 and hold tech companies to account
Danielle Citron says making social media sites act on content such as nonconsensual porn and violent conspiracies would…
Stop Showing Violent Police Videos
Allissa Richardson interviewed by WBUR
Somebody Has to Do It
evelyn douek says Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.
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Ofunmilayo Arewa and Thomas Streinz join Jacquelene Mwangi and Padmashree Gehl Sampath as they discuss the political…
Author and digital communities scholar Ethan Zuckerman, in conversation with Martha Minow, discusses his new book on…
Restoring US Leadership for Global Health
A discussion with government officials on plans to restore US leadership for global health.
Assembly Project Fellowship Showcase
An inside look at the work of the 2021 Assembly Fellows on Disinformation, Privacy, and Ethical AI
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsSummer Institute
The Summer Institute is a fully online educational program offered to undergraduate and graduate students by the…
Assembly: Disinformation
The Assembly: Disinformation Program brings together participants from academia, industry, government, and civil…
BKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
BKC Policy Practice: Digital Pandemic Response
The BKC Policy Practice on Digital Pandemic Response is an interdisciplinary program that works with public and private…
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsYouth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)…
Web Integrity Project
The Web Integrity Project (WIP) monitors changes to government websites
The Ethics of Digitalization
Led by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Berkman Klein Center, and the Digital…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
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 technologi…
Internet Health
Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to…
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…
Privacy & Security
Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of technology, examine and document the…