To start spinning up the Institute, a team of staff and research assistants investigated the existing landscape of academic and civil society efforts to improve and reimagine social media, exploring a number of key topics including privacy, harassment and harmful speech, misinformation, and intermediary liability laws, particularly section 230 of the Communications Decency Act. Out of this broad mapping effort, research assistants developed their own research questions and short independent projects...
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