WIRED

The Most Powerful Politics Influencers Barely Post About Politics

David Gilbert highlights Nathaniel Lubin's work on a report highlighting the influence of social media creators on electoral politics.

Dec 17, 2025
arXiv

How social media creators shape mass politics: A field experiment during the 2024 US elections

Nathaniel Lubin and coauthors argue that content creators shape public political opinion amid widespread political apathy.

Dec 17, 2025
Seán Boddy

Seán Boddy

Seán Boddy is an AI safety and geopolitics researcher whose work focuses on the governance, security, and social implications of advanced AI.

Kai McDougall

Kai McDougall

I started my Harvard journey 8 years ago as a staff assistant at HMS in the Health Care Policy Department for 5 years before moving over to HSPH in…

Hayley Song

Hayley Song

Hae Jin (Hayley) Song is a Fellow at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard University and an AI Research Fellow at ThoughtWorks, where she works on the…

Harvard Law Today

How technology supports and undermines democracy

At a recent event, experts urged collaboration between technologists and policymakers to protect the rule of law

Leaders in technology and governance must come together to craft legislation more attuned to today's challenges than the 1974 Privacy Act.

Larry Schwartztol

Larry Schwartztol

Sarah Newman

Sarah Newman

Cindy Cohn

Cindy Cohn

Dec 16, 2025
Reparative Media

Reparative Media and Social Media & Tech Solidarity

Dr. AJ Escoffery organized the Social Media & Tech Solidarity Workshop for leaders in academia, organizing, and storytelling to interrogate whether social media can empower…

Dec 16, 2025
Web3Privacy Now

No One's Coming to Save Us

Why Communities Must Build Their Own Internet

Affiliate Rudy Fraser explains how the Blacksky toolkit allows community builders to control algorithms, moderation, governances, and fund-pooling.

Dec 15, 2025
The Guardian

The US supreme court’s TikTok ruling is a scandal

The decision means TikTok now operates under the threat that it could be forced offline with a stroke of Trump’s pen

Faculty Associate Evelyn Douek and Jameel Jaffer argue that executive control over TikTok threatens both First Amendment rights and national security.

Dec 15, 2025
Gizmodo

How Governments Turn the Internet Into a Weapon

Bruce Schneier and Zach Rosson study deliberate internet shutdowns - more than 240 in 2025 - as means of silencing societies.

Dec 13, 2025
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