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Global cohort of scholars, professionals, and civil society representatives consider norms and regulations for removal of online content
Scholars will be in residence developing research into social media and the prospects for interventions to improve it.
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If Tech Fails to Design for the Most Vulnerable, It Fails Us All
Afsaneh Rigot connects Telegram in Russia, Elon Musk’s Twitter plans, and threats to abortion access and safety...
Design From the Margins
This report outlines how Design From the Margins can be used to build technologies for decentered cases from the…
The Bitcoin Mining Showdown In New York’s Wine Country
Elizabeth Renieris shares about cryptocurrency's climate impact.
Telegram’s Embrace of Contradiction
Will Marks and David Nemer assess Telegram's content moderation.
Digital identity for development should keep pace with national cybersecurity capacity: Nigeria in focus
Babatunde Okunoye explains why Nigeria's digital identity project has exceeded the country's cybersecurity infrastructu…
Why COVID Vaccine Cards Are So Easily Forged
Cybersecurity expert Bruce Schneier explains that paper vaccine cards strike a good balance between ease and security.
Breached! Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It
Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog have devised a series of recommendations to better Internet governance in "Breached!…
How Wikipedia gets to define what’s true online
Ethan Zuckerman traces Wikipedia's transformation from controversial to trusted source.
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The Tech That Comes Next: How Changemakers, Philanthropists, and Technologists Can Build an Equitable World
Afua Bruce discusses her and Amy Sample Ward's "The Tech That Comes Next" with Sue Hendrickson and Amritha Jayanti.
Joanne Cheung will discuss “Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks"...
Living by Protocol
Living by Protocol queries the reflections of artists on, with, and by social media. The nine grid structured monitors…
Demystifying Intellectual Property
Daren Tang, Director General of the World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO, will participate in a discussion…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsCyberlaw Clinic
Harvard Law School's Cyberlaw Clinic provides high-quality, pro-bono legal services to clients on issues relating to…
BKC Policy Practice: Artificial Intelligence
The BKC Policy Practice on Artificial Intelligence (BKC PP: AI) is a public interest-oriented program that helps…
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…
Fellowship Program
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes an interdisciplinary and diverse community of academics and…
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsResearch Sprint on Takedowns and Transparency with Lumen
Sprint participants worked with members of the Lumen Database team and Berkman Klein Center staff, as well as outside…
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)…
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
metaLAB (at) Harvard
Explores the digital arts and humanities through research, teaching, publications, and exhibitions
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…