evelyn douek

Jonathan Zittrain, evelyn douek, and John Palfrey share insights on the consequences of social media after a Facebook whistleblower dominated headlines last week. …

evelyn douek writes that TikTok has managed to dodge government scrutiny because politicians have failed to take it seriously.

evelyn douek talks with Quinta Jurecic and Alex Abdo about the legal fight between researchers and Facebook about collecting data on Facebook ads. 

evelyn douek explores the impacts of the Facebook Oversight Board

Martha Minow and evelyn douek share how the decline of local news hurts democracy.

The Harvard Law Bulletin showcases work from members of the Berkman Klein community on mis- and disinformation and the Center’s projects and programs that produce it.

evelyn douek shares the limitations of the Facebook Oversight Board's ruling on Donald Trump's account.

evelyn douek and Joan Donovan comment on Facebook’s response to the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

evelyn douek says simply erasing things from the internet comes at a cost and it might not be worth it.

evelyn douek says Facebook’s made-up court is filling an enormous legal void.

evelyn douek explains details of Facebook Oversight Board’s recent decision and what they reveal about Facebook’s rules, and the FOB’s role in reviewing them.

evelyn douek weighs in on the Facebook Oversight Board’s upcoming decision

A Q&A with evelyn douek

evelyn douek says that if Facebook can discourage hate speech and incitements to violence on a special occasion, it can do so all the time.

evelyn douek comments on the Facebook Oversight Board

evelyn douek speaks with Politico about the Facebook Oversight Board

evelyn douek and Julie Owono talk with Vox Recode about the Facebook Oversight Board

evelyn douek discusses Amazon profiting from sales of conspiracy theory books

evelyn douek discusses the increasing use of alternative platforms

Chinmayi Arun and evelyn douek discuss Internet governance in The New York Times.

evelyn douek discusses the deplatforming of Donald Trump with The New York Times.

evelyn douek discusses Facebook’s decision to refer Trump’s case to its oversight board with The New York Times

evelyn douek discusses content moderation – and who makes the decisions – with NPR.

evelyn douek puts the referral in context

evelyn douek weighs in on Twitter removing Trump

Jonathan Zittrain joins the Lawfare Podcast

Harvard Law experts Yochai Benkler and evelyn douek weigh in on the suspension of President Trump’s social media accounts

evelyn douek pens an op-ed on Facebook’s Oversight Board

evelyn douek says tech giants must not treat their crackdown on the president’s social accounts as an edge case. The social web should be different now.

evelyn douek speaks with OneZero about content moderation and alternative social media platforms

In 2020, the need to contain misinformation about COVID-19 pushed Facebook and Twitter into a role they never wanted—arbiters of the truth.

evelyn douek shares her thoughts on content moderation in 2020

evelyn douek joins Marketplace Tech podcast to discuss YouTube and disinformation

YouTube is a major vector for election and other disinformation. evelyn douek asks why its CEO wasn’t with Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey on Capitol Hill.

evelyn douek discusses content moderation and the 2020 election

evelyn douek talks with Bloomberg about YouTube’s election response

Platform governance and the 2020 Presidential Election

evelyn douek explains YouTube’s content moderation policies

evelyn douek and Zeynep Tufekci are cited by The New York Times

evelyn douek speaks to The New York Times about Twitter blocking the link to a New York Post article.

evelyn douek, Dipayan Ghosh talk with the Centre for International Governance Innovation

Julie Owono and evelyn douek discuss Facebook Oversight Board

Twitter’s QAnon response underlines “how powerful and unaccountable” companies are, evelyn douek says.

evelyn douek discusses Twitter’s recent plans to mitigate QAnon with Slate

There’s no clear definition, and that’s worrisome, evelyn douek says.

evelyn douek joins Australian Broadcasting Corporation to discuss backlash over hate speech on social media

evelyn douek spoke to Australia’s Select Committee on Foreign Interference through Social Media about misinformation.

evelyn douek discusses content moderation and different types of speech

evelyn douek cautions against expecting a platform like Twitter to completely solve the problems of political discourse.

When a duly elected president is bent on spreading misinformation, tech companies can rein him in only so much, writes evelyn douek.

evelyn douek interviews Craig Silverman, the media editor for Buzzfeed News, for the Lawfare Podcast.

douek speaks with Columbia Journalism Review’s Mathew Ingram

evelyn douek explains Facebook’s Oversight Board

Facebook and other platforms insisted that they didn’t want to be “arbiters of truth.” The coronavirus changed their mind overnight.

evelyn douek discusses content moderation and COVID-19

evelyn douek on changes to content moderation on social media platforms as a result of the pandemic

evelyn douek speaks with Kate Starbird, an expert in crisis informatics, or the study of how information flows during crisis events.

Discussing Facebook’s Oversight Board

evelyn douek reviews a recent white paper from Facebook on online content moderation

Alex Stamos discusses his experience at Facebook handling 2016 election interference, as well as his work on cybersecurity, disinformation, and end-to-end encryption with evelyn…

evelyn douek urges transparency and accountability in industry-wide content removal decisions

evelyn douek weighed in on the upsides and shortcomings drawbacks of Facebook‘s new content moderation policy. 

evelyn douek joined a virtual panel of experts to weigh in on the two approaches

evelyn douek spoke with law professors Bobby Chesney and Danielle Citron about deep fakes.

Jonathan Zittrain and evelyn douek weigh in on the power of platforms like Facebook

BKC affiliate discusses free speech, platform regulation, political advertising, and Facebook’s oversight board.

evelyn douek reviews David Kaye’s latest report

Breaking up Facebook isn’t enough, says evelyn douek

evelyn douek shares her perspective with The New York Times

Deciding which postings to take down is a difficult and unpopular job. So Mark Zuckerberg is outsourcing it, says evelyn douek

Australia has held itself up as a model for cracking down on violent extremist material online since the Christchurch massacre in New Zealand. But the limits to its approach have…