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Nathaniel Lubin has spent his career focused on digital strategy, technology, and politics. 

He is the founder of Incite Studio, the Better Internet Initiative (a non-profit fellowship for large online content creators), and Survey 160 (a software company that source data for polling and research), and has advised dozens of corporations, major foundations and nonprofits, and startups. Nathaniel previously was the Director of the Office of Digital Strategy at the White House under President Obama and, before that served as Director of Digital Marketing at Obama for America, with a budget of more than $112 million. Originally from New York, Lubin is an honors graduate of Harvard University. He is an active angel investor and a contributing writer for the Atlantic. Nathaniel's current work focuses on integrations of public health within product design and regulation, improved methods for data quality in research, and prosocial growth within the creator economy. Prior work with the BKC includes: https://www.platformaccountability.com


Publications

Publication
Jun 12, 2023

Accountability Infrastructure

How to implement limits on platform optimization to protect population health

A white paper that builds upon the history of public health for addressing the systemic harms of online platforms.


News

Aug 9, 2023

Platform Accountability: Developing Systems to More Meaningfully Assess and Mitigate Platform Harms

Assembly Fellow Nate Lubin recaps his fellowship project, a white paper which argues for a series of platform accountability mechanisms informed by the field of public health.


Community

MIT Science Policy Review

Mapping the space of social media regulation

Nathaniel Lubin, Kalie Mayberry, Dylan Moses, Manon Revel, Luke Thorburn, and Andrew West identify two modes of mapping the space of social media regulation and discuss the trade…

Aug 27, 2024
The Atlantic

What to Do About the Junkification of the Internet

Nathaniel Lubin writes about internet "junkification."

Mar 12, 2024
Politico

Nobody knows which political ads work and why

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin comments on a recent study released by himself and co-authors, as well as what political ads may look like this election cycle.

Feb 15, 2024
American Political Science Review

How Experiments Help Campaigns Persuade Voters: Evidence from a Large Archive of Campaigns’ Own Experiments

Along with co-authors, BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin analyzes an archive of 146 advertising experiments conducted by US campaigns in 2018 and 2020.

Feb 8, 2024
Lawfare

How Tech Regulation Can Leverage Product Experimentation Results

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin writes about how tech regulation could benefit from using the data from companies' private experimentation results.

Jul 11, 2023
Tech Policy Press

How to Assess Platform Impact on Mental Health and Civic Norms

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin writes about methods and approaches of evaluating effects of digital platforms on mental health.

Jun 22, 2023
The Atlantic

We've Been Thinking About the Internet All Wrong

BKC Affiliate Nathaniel Lubin writes about using the field of public health as inspiration for a new metaphor for the internet.

Jun 21, 2023

Events

Mar 12, 2024 @ 9:30 AM

Building Accountability Infrastructures for Social Media and LLMs with a Focus on Mental Health

In-Person Workshop

While moderation is important for what we call social media’s “acute harms,” societal-scale harms – such as negative effects on mental health and social trust – require new forms…