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Kasia Chmielinski explains how a popular algorithm used to predict race or ethnicity based on scant personal details ends up creating flawed data.

evelyn douek explores the impacts of the Facebook Oversight Board

Kishonna Gray shares her journey engaging digital studies and Black studies. 

Baobao Zheng and colleagues explore how researchers view topics in artificial intelligence

Mason Kortz and Kendra Albert explain how to read a court docket in a free guide

Martha Minow explains why the government must save local news.

Asaf Lubin explains the problems with current efforts to prevent cybercrime.

Joan Donovan shares insights on the government's ability to control misinformation on social media.

Hilary Ross comments on how government may be able to help the state of local news. 

Babatunde Okunoye explains the importance of digital security for ID systems.

Jonathan Zittrain and Deb Roy will teach a seminar on the design of digital media at Harvard Law School in Fall 2021.

Woodrow Hartzog has a conversation about the impact of President Biden's new executive order. 

Nani Jansen Reventlow explains the dangers of automating government services

Will Marks explains why NFTs are so appealing — and so confusing — to many internet users.

Hilary Ross calls for the expansion of public media to combat disinformation.

Martha Minow and evelyn douek share how the decline of local news hurts democracy.

Apryl Williams shares the ways in which race underlies much of online life.

Jonathan Zittrain shares the ways humanity’s knowledge can change or disappear without warning on the Internet

Jessica Fjeld describes the increasing relevance of AI in our lives and reflects on the importance of self-compassion.

Woodrow Hartzog shares his "theory of fault" for autonomous system failures