To start spinning up the Institute, a team of staff and research assistants investigated the existing landscape of academic and civil society efforts to improve and reimagine…

"The inexplicability [of machine learning models] is not a drawback but a truth."

Afsaneh Rigot writes that requirements for real identities on the Internet pose immense safety and security issues — especially for marginalized persons.

evelyn douek offers an explanation for why the Facebook Papers have failed to make as much of an impact internationally.

Nick Couldry and Ulises Ali Mejias trace a trend in research that focuses on how society is transformed by data extraction for profit.

Katya Abazajian writes about the difficulties that arise when government agencies are reluctant to share information with each other.

Katya Abazajian writes about the difficulties that arise when government agencies are reluctant to share information with each other.

Ethan Zuckerman points out room for improvement in Facebook's openness to misinformation research.