Nathaniel Lubin

Affiliate

Internet Health Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse Technology & the Law
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Email
nlubin@cyber.harvard.edu
Website
https://www.natelubin.com/
LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaniel-lubin-956ba45b/

Nathaniel Lubin is a technologist focused on developing novel approaches to improving online discourse, building measurement tools, and combating misinformation. 

He is the CEO and co-founder of Survey 160, a software product designed to source data for polling and research, the founder of the Better Internet Initiative, a fellowship to help large online creators incorporate pro-social content into their work, and Incite Studio, an analytics and strategy consultancy. Previously, he served as the Director of Digital Strategy at the White House where he helped modernize the way the Obama White House engaged and communicated with the American public.

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Publications

Accountability Infrastructure
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

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

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
Knight-Georgetown Institute

Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First

Faculty Associates Arvind Narayanan and Elissa Redmiles, along with Affiliates Aviv Ovadya and Nathaniel Lubin, contribute to a roadmap for designing recommender systems that…

Mar 13, 2025
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Social media harm abatement: Mechanisms for transparent public health assessment

"Should these cases reach a settlement or a ruling in favor of the plaintiffs, a judge may use this approach as a base template to be updated with the specifics of any case."…

Mar 13, 2025
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

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