Homepage
Integrity Design Approaches To Challenging Digital Community Problems
A policy memo outlining two key strategies for state and local leaders looking to more safely reopen their schools:…
The Latest
Community
The latest news and commentary from our community.
Platform Accountability Through Digital “Poison Cabinets”
Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent
What happened with digital rights in Africa in Q1 2021?
Tunde Okunoye shares an overview of developments in digital rights in Africa for the BKC Medium Collection.
Technology and Youth Represent Nigeria’s Path Out of the Woods
Tunde Okunoye discusses the roles of Nigerian youth and technology in a post for the Council on Foreign Relations.
South African case study sheds light on how vaccine manufacturing can be developed
Padmashree Gehl Sampath and her co-author provide an overview of a case study on financing and manufacturing the COVID…
Inside QAnon
Joan Donovan discusses QAnon with CNN.
Trump faces a narrow path to victory against Facebook suspension
evelyn douek comments on the Facebook Oversight Board
David O’Brien on ransomware attacks
David O’Brien spoke with Boston 25 News about ransomware attacks and the ransomware industry
NFTs Show the Value of Owning the Unownable
Jonathan Zittrain and Will Marks argue the complexity and arbitrariness of non-fungible tokens are a big part of their…
Featured events
See all Events
Edgelands Institute APAC Launch
The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass…
Governing the Social Media City
Two former tech insiders turned public advocates discuss ways that platforms can mitigate all kinds of harms, without…
Edgelands Institute Launch Event
The Edgelands Institute is an interdisciplinary pop-up institute to redraw our social contract in our era of mass…
Video & Podcast: A panel discussion about what the Internet might look like if it was designed by sex workers and how…
Featured Programs
See all ProgramsAssembly: 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…
Initiative for a Representative First Amendment
IfRFA is a shared project between the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and the Cyberlaw Clinic.
Featured Projects
See all Projects & ToolsThe Ethics of Digitalization
Led by the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), the Berkman Klein Center, and the Digital…
Web Integrity Project
The Web Integrity Project (WIP) monitors changes to government websites
Lumen
Lumen collects and studies online content removal requests, providing transparency and supporting research and analysis…
Privacy Tools
The Privacy Tools Project is a broad effort to advance a multidisciplinary understanding of data privacy issues and…
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…