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Journalists must cut through rampant disinformation around the pandemic to robustly report on efforts to suppress voting and delegitimize election results writes Joan Donovan

BKC affiliate Patrick Murck on why newly introduced bills creating a U.S. “Digital Dollar” as part of the coronavirus stimulus package would radically upend the banking and…

It’s time to move beyond individualistic approaches to data governance, writes Elizabeth Renieris

Joan Donovan on the dozens, if not hundreds of scams that have popped up online as quickly as the coronavirus itself

Adam Holland, Project Manager of the Lumen Database, gives an overview of the recent debate over the Internet Archive's “National Emergency Library”

Danielle Allen describes how the US could use technology to ethically and democratically address both the public health emergency and economic crisis by scaling up "smart testing."

Part one of an exploration into the pathways and pitfalls for good global data protection in an evolving landscape.

Two years after the assassination of Marielle Franco, BKC fellow and filmmaker Leonard Cortana reflects on the subject of his documentary

Proposals that would let people sell their information seem empowering—but they aren’t, writes BKC’s Elizabeth Renieris.

That’s a Dangerous Idea

How collaborative society has come to the rescue where late capitalism has failed.

Zeynep Tufekci says that’s not what they’re for

Yochai Benkler discusses why Trump’s loyalists benefited from having told people not to believe what they were hearing.

The BKC fellow discusses cryptography with The Politic

Despite numerous predictions by industry analysts that “self-sovereign identity” (or “SSI”) would be a key trend by now, in reality there is still limited adoption outside of…

Fast Company cites BKC's Doc Searl’s blog post on Zoom and Privacy

Data ownership is dangerous

evelyn douek discusses content moderation and COVID-19

With many offices and schools now closed, people are seeking out human connection using the same online tools that have been widely criticized for fostering digital addiction and…

Rob Faris discusses the “politicization of public health”