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Harvard Business Review

How Gig Work Pits Customers Against Workers

BKC Faculty Associate Lindsey Cameron and BKC Project Manager Kalie Mayberry explain why some methods for effecting change in the labor market, e.g., customer boycotts, haven't…

Apr 3, 2024
Atlanta Community Press Collective

Atlanta Police Foundation pushed ‘unprecedented’ surveillance plan

Clinical Instructor and Director for the Initiative for a Representative First Amendment Kendra Albert rebukes Atlanta Police Foundation's invasive individual electronic…

Apr 1, 2024
Excited Utterance

152 Rebecca Tushnet, Of Bass Notes and Base Rates

Discussing her paper, Of Bass Notes and Base Rates: Avoiding Mistaken Inferences About Copying, BKC Director Rebecca Tushnet explains evidentiary challenges in copyright…

Apr 1, 2024
WGBH

Transgender attorney says Musk's handling of X is 'extremely concerning'

Alejandra Caraballo discusses her experiences with content moderation issues on Elon Musk's X and the lack of trust and safety mechanisms on the platform.

Mar 28, 2024
Jacobin

The Grim High-Tech Dystopia on the US-Mexico Border

Petra Molnar writes about the AI technology incorporated at the southern border and the human rights implications.

Mar 28, 2024
The Guardian

Sam Bankman-Fried is going to prison. The crypto industry isn’t any better for it

Molly White discusses the state of the crypto industry following Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing.

Mar 28, 2024
Social Movement Studies

Data in movement: the social movement society in the age of datafication

BKC Faculty Associate Stefania Milan and David Beraldo put the studies of data and social movements in conversation with each other.

Mar 28, 2024
Literal Humans

Democracy, Social Media, and the World’s Biggest Election Year

BKC Affiliate Sahar Massachi explores challenges and potential solutions for safeguarding online democracy in a rapidly shifting digital world. 

Mar 28, 2024
LPE Project

Six Reactions to the Proposed TikTok Ban

In an LPE Project collection, Anupam Chander and Elettra Bietti offer unenthusiastic reactions to the TikTok legislation passed by the US House of Representatives. 

Mar 26, 2024
ABC AU

Developing a responsible use of AI policy

BKC Affiliate Rumman Chowdhury emphasizes the importance of community engagement while engaging a conversation on responsible integration of AI.

Mar 25, 2024
Harvard Law Today

ChatNYT

Cyberlaw Clinic Instructor Mason Kortz discusses the legal arguments, possible resolutions, and potential implications of the NYT v. OpenAI lawsuit.

Mar 22, 2024
Tech Policy Press

Policies vs. Enforcement: What’s Up with Meta’s Platforming of Violent Extremist Hate Account “Libs of TikTok”?

Alejandra Caraballo criticizes Meta's lack of enforcement of the company's own bullying, harassment, and hate speech policies.

Mar 21, 2024
NatSec Tech

Bulelani Jili on Technology in Africa

BKC Fellow Bulelani Jili explores the role of technology in Africa-China relations.

Mar 20, 2024
Axios

TikTok ban could upend global app economy

2023-2024 RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander comments on the prospect of a TikTok ban or forced sale.

Mar 19, 2024
The Klonickles

Murthy Oral Arguments: Sotomayor Scolds the Louisiana Solicitor General and Platforms Are Like the Press

BKC Faculty Associate Kate Klonick recaps the oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri.

Mar 18, 2024
Tech Policy Press

Breaking the Silence: Marginalized Voices in the Tech Industry

Read about Nadah Feteih and Anika Collier Novaroli's conversation at the Berkman Klein Center on marginalized voices in the tech industry.

Mar 18, 2024
TIME

The Next Tech Backlash Will Be About Hygiene

Jonnie Penn argues that the increased incorporation of AI into our lives may harm our basic hygiene.

Mar 18, 2024
Social Movement Studies

Data as narrative: contesting the right to the word

Nick Couldry investigates the fundamental processes that underly data activism.

Mar 14, 2024

Battle of the ban: TikTok fight is just getting started

BKC Director Mark Wu explains the U.S.'s ability to crackdown on TikTok.

Mar 14, 2024
MIT Technology Review

Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier argue that the unregulated evolution of social media over the past few decades provides lessons for the AI revolution.

Mar 13, 2024