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Nieman

Lessons from Building an Online Toolkit to Aid Open-Source Investigations

Publicly available sources can be a tool for all journalists

Affiliate and former fellow Johanna Wild details her efforts to make it simpler for journalists to find and use open-source research tools.

Nov 10, 2025
PeerJ Computer Science

The rise and fall of DAOstack

Lessons for decentralized autonomous organizations

In a new piece for PeerJ Computer Science, Faculty Associate Samer Hassan and coauthors chronicle the history of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a non-finance…

Nov 6, 2025
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ASML 2025 Synthesizer

Join the Applied Social Media Lab for the 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase!

Fast Company

Will AI weaken democracy?

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that the future of AI's impacts on democratic processes is unwritten, and whether the technology is used to liberate or to…

Nov 4, 2025

Larry Schwartztol

Larry Schwartztol is Professor of Practice at Harvard Law School, where he teaches, writes, and advocates on democracy and voting rights, civil…

Cindy Cohn

Cindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. From 2000-2015 she served as EFF’s Legal Director as well as its General…

Prospect Magazine

Chatbots and deepfakes are eroding our shared reality

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman casts a critical eye on OpenAI's Sora, an AI video generator. Owing to public backlash, OpenAI has opened itself up to requests from public…

Oct 31, 2025
Harvard Law Today

Your chatbot may be the friend that isn't

Harvard Law Today's coverage of "Friend, Flatterer, or Foe?" highlights the ominous side of AI chatbots.

Oct 30, 2025
Pioneers and Pathfinders

Pioneers and Pathfinders

Jack Cushman joins the Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, reflecting on his journey from programming to law school and on the skills that today's lawyers ought to hone to meet the…

Oct 29, 2025
IEEE Spectrum

Scientists Need a Positive Vision for AI

It’s time to lead reform, block harm, and advance the public good

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer an optimistic outlook: AI-generated harms are neither natural nor inevitable, and beneficial uses of the technology are possible.

Oct 29, 2025
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