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You Purged Racists From Your Website? Great, Now Get to Work
Joan Donovan says social media sites can—and must—take action to control the content on their sites.
Ken and Karen are White Supremacists
Apryl Williams explains that although memes are humorous, Karens and Kens of the world express a dangerous, audacious…
Advertisers retreating from Facebook amid backlash over hate speech on social media
evelyn douek joins Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss backlash over hate speech on social media
Pathways and Pitfalls for Social Payment Programs and Data Protection
"There is no meaningful choice between compulsory digitization or exclusion."
Bruce Schneier says we need to embrace inefficiency to save our economy
Bruce Schneier shares his prediction for the future with Quartz
A Guide to Covering Hate Speech Without Amplifying It
Jasmine McNealy says the U.S. Constitution needs to be understood within a power framework
Twitter’s Least-Bad Option for Dealing With Donald Trump
Every plausible configuration of social media in 2020 is unpalatable, Jonathan Zittrain says.
Contribution to a European Agenda for AI
Improving Risk Management, Building Strong Governance, Accelerating Education and Research
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsAI: Educational Activities
The Berkman Klein Center has worked to build a robust community and institutional activities leveraging… More
Youth and Media
Youth and Media (YaM) encompasses an array of research, advocacy, and development initiatives around youth (age 12-18)… More
Internet Monitor
Internet Monitor's aim is to evaluate, describe, and summarize the means, mechanisms, and extent of Internet content… More
The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University is dedicated to exploring, understanding, and shaping the way we use technology
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… More
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… More
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… More
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… More
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Contact Tracing and Technology: A Deep Dive
BKC co-hosts conversation on digital data and public health More
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[Virtual] The Pandemic As a Portal
Video & Podcast: Three projects dedicated to capturing and documenting the new possible will talk about their… More
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[Virtual] Data and COVID-19
Health data, contact tracing, and misinformation More
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A discussion on the economic and healthcare fallouts for low-income countries More