Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse

We could soon see the fallout from a hands-off approach to AI regulation.

How could global citizen deliberation shape the future of artificial intelligence?

Molly White links a recent Second Circuit decision to a larger pattern of publishers' interference with libraries and, more generally, with reading practices.

Sociodemographic data bears on algorithmic literacy.

Have the country's efforts to combat fake news gone too far?

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…

Rebecca Tushnet details some of the complex legal landscape of doctored celebrity endorsements.

The New York Times chronicles the latest in Ethan Zuckerman’s lawsuit against Meta.

Ibtissam Bouachrine highlights the dangers of the targeted misogynistic and transphobic campaign against Algerian boxer Imane Khelif.

By assisting Latin America in developing robust AI regulations, the EU can promote a cohesive global approach to AI governance, argues Victor Muñoz.

Martha Minow sits down with PBS News's Judy Woodruff to discuss the implications of political polarization and consumers' trust in the news media.

Presenting at CSU, San Bernardino, Elodie Vialle highlights the risks of allowing harassment and violence against journalists to go unchecked.

Dasha Pruss and co-author Marta Ziosi discuss their paper, "“Evidence of What, for Whom? The Socially Contested Role of Algorithmic Bias in a Predictive Policing Tool."

Petra Molnar discusses her new book and experience traveling around the world investigating the use of technology in migration management.

Sam Hinds interviews Johanna Wild on the benefits and risks of using novel open source intelligence (OSINT) tools to enable a broader, more transparent global knowledge base.

Anupam Chander discusses the SCOTUS NetChoice rulings and the ramifications of the opinions.

Amidst escalating online scapegoating, offline attacks are rising, writes Alejandra Caraballo.

Jeffrey Hall writes about the loneliness epidemic and how to address its core.

Petra Molnar discusses AI surveillance at the border.

"The rise of deep fakes and other AI-generated misinformation presents a direct threat to women’s freedom."

Anupam Chander reacts to the new law that could ban TikTok, underlining the need for greater accountability in the US government's tech regulation.

Joe Bak-Coleman speaks about the debate on kids' mental health and the relationship to social media and smartphones. “Ninety percent of this debate is basically just back…

Kesa White joins Elizabeth Dubois to discuss her work on "dog whistling," and argues that, while counter speech can be helpful in limited situations, it does not fix the issue of…

Alejandra Caraballo discusses her experiences with content moderation issues on Elon Musk's X and the lack of trust and safety mechanisms on the platform.

Petra Molnar writes about the AI technology incorporated at the southern border and the human rights implications.

Molly White discusses the state of the crypto industry following Sam Bankman-Fried's sentencing.

BKC Faculty Associate Stefania Milan and David Beraldo put the studies of data and social movements in conversation with each other.

BKC Affiliate Sahar Massachi explores challenges and potential solutions for safeguarding online democracy in a rapidly shifting digital world. 

Read about Nadah Feteih and Anika Collier Novaroli's conversation at the Berkman Klein Center on marginalized voices in the tech industry.

Nathaniel Lubin writes about internet "junkification."

Jeffrey Hall discusses making friends online.

BKC Employee Fellow Manon Revel argues that more communication is key to facing the world's toughest issues.

Susan Benesch and Catherine Buerger use the context of fentanyl and border crossings to explain the dangers of combining facts, lies, and emotional language.

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.

BKC Faculty Associate Magda Romanska and Kasia Lech provide the story and vision for The Theatre Times.

Bruce Schneier writes about the CFPB's proposed data rules and its benefits.

Ethan Zuckerman writes about social media getting smaller, allowing for more people to connect, but also more extremism to arise. 

Aviv Ovadya speaks to The Washington Post about AI and the 2024 elections across the country. 

BKC Faculty Associate Nishant Shah offers accounts of two moments in computational history to reframe conversations around generative AI.

Aileen Nielsen writes about city lawmaking compensating for national regulations in technology. 

Ruth Okediji discusses the Biden administration's recent proposal to use federal "march-in" rights to lower drug costs.

“It just makes the generation and dissemination of very realistic deepfakes and realistic-seeming deepfakes much, much easier,” Rumman Chowdhury told Foreign Policy when…

In a new Oxford University Press book, Virgilio Almeida delves into the increasing presence of algorithms in everyday decisions, exploring their social and political impacts…

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch provides recommendations for recognizing and countering hateful online speech.

RSM Visiting Scholar Joseph Walther explains the social approval theory of online hate: that posters of hateful messages are motivated by the approval of like-minded individuals.

RSM Visiting Scholar David Craig writes about creators and the upcoming labor revolution

RSM Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander, and Donara Aghanjani and Alyanna Apacible discuss the fraught dynamic between Congressional distrust of TikTok and TikTok's potential for…

RSM Visiting Scholar David Craig recounts how a tv show changed the history of Cold War and comments on how media can impact society now.

Rebooting Social Media Visiting Professor Joe Walther comments on online communications during times of heightened tension.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier explores beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might alter how democracy functions.

BKC Faculty Associate Susan Benesch discusses the relationship with heated political speech and real-world violence.

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya argues that reinventing our democratic infrastructure is not just possible, it is necessary.

Nadah Feteih and Elodie Vialle argue that companies should involve at-risk communities in the design process of new technologies.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier argues that AI disinformation is a threat to democratic processes.

Zahra Stardust co-authors commentary reflecting on sextech futures.

RSM Visiting Scholar Jeffrey Hall studies whether chat negativity and the degree to which live chat rule sets encourage active (vs. passive) involvement influence participants’…

BKC Faculty Associate Aaron Shaw discusses the connection between social media platforms and extremist movements. 

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier reflects on his workshop that brought together a wide variety of people to discuss the reimagination of democracy for the twenty-first century.

BKC Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick writes about a federal court ruling that restricted the Biden administration’s communications with social media platforms.

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman argues that while competition for Twitter is a good thing, Threads, Facebook’s competitor to Twitter, leaves much to be desired.

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

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

BKC Affiliate Nathan Sanders writes about the drawbacks and the opportunities AI can provide to strengthen democracy.

Sue Hendrickson and BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury write about the role of global governance alongside the development of AI.

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman discusses the fate of Twitter and the future of digital public squares.

BKC Affiliate Molly White discusses her blog, Web3 Is Going Just Great, that tracks crypto scams and hacks.

Jabari Evans talks with Incoming RSM Fellow Meredith Clark about media, journalism, and Black community.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier discusses the practical considerations of Montana's TikTok ban.

BKC Faculty Associate Judith Donath discusses metaphors for the internet.

Tweets by Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick are referenced in a discussion of Gonzalez v. Google and Twitter v. Taamneh.

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier delivers a keynote speech during the RSA Conference in San Francisco on April 25, 2023 about the risks and promise of AI for democracy.

Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar and BKC Faculty Associate David Nemer discusses Google's lobbying against a Brazilian bill aimed at curbing the spread of “fake news.”

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about how AI will change the nature of campaigning.

Rest of World reports on analysis of Twitter's compliance with government orders for censorship or surveillance using data from BKC's Lumen database.

BKC Affiliates Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier write about AI's potential to advance the public good by helping democracy.

Jonathan Zittrain comments on BKC's Institute for Rebooting Social Media and its projects creating and experimenting with new social networks.

Clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic Alejandra Caraballo comments on changes to Twitter's content moderation rules and enforcement since Elon Musk's takeover.

BKC Affiliate Nathan Sanders' policymaking project, the Massachusetts Platform for Legislative Engagement, or MAPLE, is discussed as an alternative to Twitter.

Clinical instructor at the Cyberlaw Clinic Alejandra Caraballo writes about how the US district court decision blocking access to the abortion pill mifepristone has also…

BKC Faculty Associate Judith Donath discusses the threat social media poses to children and realistic solutions to mitigate that threat.

BKC Affiliate Afsaneh Rigot comments on the arrests of LGBTQ+ people in Egypt.

Rebecca Tushnet discusses the Rogers test as a standard for trademark infringement which is implicated in a current Supreme Court case involving a dog toy company spoofing Jack…

BKC Affiliate Jenny Korn sits down with GBH News to discuss whether the success of “Everything, Everywhere, All At Once” means that opportunities for Asian actors have paid off.

BKC affiliate Leonard Cortana was profiled by United Nations Human Rights for his work in human rights.

BKC Fellow Juliana Castro-Varon writes as a graphic designer about the effect AI image generators will have on a potentially unsuspecting public who might not understand how the…

BKC Affiliate Julie Owono discusses Facebook and Instagram content moderation via the Meta Oversight Board, of which Owono is an inaugural member, and freedom of expression.

Jonathan Zittrain is quoted discussing digital governance of social media platforms.

Evelyn Douek writes with Genevieve Lakier about the free speech ramifications of Twitter v Taamneh...

BKC Responsible AI Fellow Rumman Chowdhury co-writes a piece on the shortfalls of platforms fighting online abuse.

"They erased Dulcie September, who remained a name in schools, streets, and cultural centers but nothing about her intellectual production and incredible life story as an anti…

Rumman Chowdhury writes about her time at Twitter as the engineering director of the META team...

"Emad [CEO] at Stability [AI, the open-source AI company,] says he’s ‘democratizing AI.’ Well, wouldn’t it be nice to actually be using democratic processes to figure out…

"We were rightfully worried about what this leadership change would entail...There's a lot of ideology and misunderstanding about the kind of work ethics teams do as being part of…

BKC Research Assistant Pratika Katiyar writes about the effort to silence student voices and the need to codify protections for student journalists.

"...what are the kinds of harms and stereotypes that exist in society that these machines can pick up on? These models are simply reflecting the data that is being put into them,…

"Democracy is fundamentally a human way of organizing ourselves, and where an AI, whether it's a ChatGPT that is writing human text or another AI that is figuring out human…

"My observation would be that the serious legislation that's been successfully passed for regulating machine learning in general has been painfully slow and insufficient to keep…

BKC Faculty Associate Jabari Evans writes about the subscription platform OnlyFans and the Black women rappers and video models who use it.  “Ultimately, this study…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman writes about technoculture's unique susceptibility to a mixture of falsehood and persuasive bluffing he refers to as "bullshit." "If we…

BKC Faculty Associate Greg Gondwe writes about variations in digital access and literacy among people in sub-Saharan Africa. 

BKC Faculty Associate David Nemer was interviewed about his accurate prediction of a "January 6-like event" following Brazil's elections. "I wasn’t totally surprised. I’ve been…

"So while it’s impossible to predict what a future filled with A.I. lobbyists will look like, it will probably make the already influential and powerful even more so." BKC…

BKC Affiliate Aviv Ovadya discusses social media algorithms that burst, otherwise known as bridging systems.

BKC Faculty Associate Fran Berman joined Alan Chartock of WAMC Northeast Public Radio, Jim Ketterer, and Sarah Rogerson in a roundtable discussion of issues in the news and beyond.

BKC Youth and Media Director Sandra Cortesi commented on the practice of sharing photos of children on social media.

Joan Donovan writes about the Twitter Files and Elon Musk’s failing attempts to shape the media’s narrative. “In fact, what the “Twitter Files” reveal is what we already knew…

Jonathan Zittrain sits down with Jill Lepore in a podcast discussing his idea of assigning high school students the role of vetting advertisements, including political ads, on the…

"Twitter changed leadership from one mercurial billionaire to another, and in that regard it affirms that the site was never 'ours'..."

RSM Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick writes about the positive steps Meta’s Oversight Board recently took, and how it can improve separation within platforms.  “The board…

David Weinberger discusses the shift in Twitter’s appeal to the right following Musk’s takeover. “It’s easy to understand why the right is overall so happy with what Musk has…

BKC Affiliate Bruce Schneier writes about decarbonizing crypto and the opportunity to curb its massive environmental impact. "The good news is that cryptocurrencies don’t have…

"A worry still is that these nations will never see any true benefits from tech investments until tech investors address the lack of the basic infrastructure necessary to support…

“Freedom is the most beautiful thing life has to offer.” “I am not a criminal I was a drug addict.” “Beautiful things are never perfect.” Those words, written by formerly…

Faculty Associate Susan Benesch writes about incendiary speech in political American discourse, and the rampant rise of it. "We have found that dangerous speech is uncannily…

RSM Assembly Fellow Joe Bak-Coleman writes about the challenges of managing human behavior, especially as applied to Twitter.  “On a social network, interactions between…

BKC Fellow Petra Molnar discusses surveillance and the use of tiny islands as spaces for large tech companies.  Petra Molnar, a lawyer specialising in technology and human…

"Under that reasoning, said Alejandra Caraballo of the Harvard Law School Cyberlaw Clinic, the key question for Twitter is whether tweets from fake corporate accounts would have…

BKC Fellow Florian Martin-Bariteau assembled a report to the Council of Europe on blockchain opportunities. "The impact of the blockchains for Human Rights, Democracy…

Rebecca Tushnet breaks down Vogue's seven-figure lawsuit for copyright infringement against Drake and 21 Savage. "Part of what makes this case so interesting is that it…

"Kendra Albert, a clinical instructor at Harvard Law School’s Cyberlaw Clinic, has studied “legal talismans”—terms like “free speech” that tech companies use to give legitimacy to…

Sahar Massachi joins David Ryan Polgar to discuss "the importance of fostering a generation of integrity workers to transform our technology ecosystem." “For me, I like the…

Micaela Mantegna spoke to IGN about the Spintire controversy. "Given how confounding this entire investigation has been, I spoke with video game lawyer and Berkman Klein Center…

With Jill Lepore, Jonathan Zittrain talks about his idea of using high school students as vetters of online political ads. “Not only would you...have enough high school…

BKC affiliate Molly White spoke about her interests, web3, & blockchain. "I'm hoping to keep doing what I'm doing. I feel like the site has been pretty successful…

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about disinformation and "prevent[ing] another Alex Jones." “It has become so easy to lucratively lie to so many people, and we…

Rebooting Social Media Assembly Fellow and Integrity Institute Co-founder Sahar Massachi's work with the Integrity Institute's weekly misinformation dashboard was featured in The…

Rebooting Social Media Visiting Scholar and BKC Faculty Associate David Nemer discusses social media strategies and their implications in the Brazilian presidential election…

Lumen project manager Adam Holland and Rebecca Tushnet spoke about Google’s efforts to take down links considered pirated. “Google's partner in tracking all of its takedown…

Cyberlaw clinic’s Alejandra Caraballo discusses how children’s hospitals are taking down websites as a result of harassment and threats. Removing too much information comes…

BKC Affiliate Afsaneh Rigot and Kendra Albert write about Big Tech and how they should support the Iranian people. "Expanded services...are no longer hindered by sanctions…

BKC Harvard affiliate Julie Owono discusses online content moderation. "Is it okay in a modern democratic society to leave two private companies the decision on what we can say…

BKC Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman writes about responsible digital ad systems. “As Silicon Valley giants sketch their preferred future for digital advertising, an…

BKC Fellow Bruce Schneier writes about the Uber hack. "In all of these cases, the victimized organizations could have very likely protected our data better, but the reality is…

Rebecca Tushnet discusses the potential challenges to California’s new social media law under the First Amendment.  “Knowing how many reports they got and whether or when…

David Nemer speaks about Brazil and the history of fascism, and the role cyberactivism plays in emboldening it. “Misinformation without hate, fortunately, doesn’t go very far…

David Nemer analyzes the antipathy towards women that world leaders like Jair Bolsonaro have. 

As part of her Berkman Klein fellowship, Zahra Stardust organized a Community Lab at RightsCon 2021 on "Alternative Frameworks for Sexual Content Moderation." The Lab was…

Susan Benesch, faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University, said when it comes to “dangerous speech ... what matters most is how…

BKC Faculty Associate Jabari Evans writes about engaging Black youth in learning and career pathways through hip-hop and social media.

Mark Wu discusses the economic motives behind Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Several former Soviet states use Russia’s industrial standards, which creates a captive market for…

Susan Benesch writes about how Elon Musk buying Twitter may be dangerous. “Dangerous speech forms a category because it is strikingly similar from one case to another, across…

Will Marks and David Nemer assess Telegram's content moderation.

Ethan Zuckerman traces Wikipedia's transformation from controversial to trusted source.

Is the "marketplace of ideas" fact or fantasy? Yochai Benkler assesses the future of free speech in a world of what he calls an "epistemic crisis" of disinformation and distrust.

Sahar Massachi speaks on a new way of fostering Internet health.

evelyn douek speaks on Spotify's controversial involvement in the Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Primavera De Filippi explains the implications of an NTF collection featuring fuzzy versions of Hermès bags.

Ethan Zuckerman writes that algorithms can be improved by focusing on the people who train the machines — and society at large.

Micaela Mantegna brings up crucial privacy and ethical concerns that come with the emergence of the metaverse.

Dariusz Jemielniak speaks on his research on Godwin's Law.

Sandra Wachter assesses the benefits and drawbacks about autonomous robots and the future of work.

Elizabeth Renieris urges skepticism amid the overwhelming hype around Web3.

David Nemer discusses Bolsonaro supporters’ migration from WhatsApp to Telegram.

Julie Owono shares why digital rights should have the same protections as offline ones.

Chinmayi Arun discusses the consequences for democracy if major social media platforms arbitrarily blocked political leaders.

Hilary Ross dives deep into the mission of the Institute for Rebooting Social Media at All Tech is Human's Responsible Tech University Summit.

In Nieman Lab's predictions for journalism in 2022, Jonas Kaiser explores the need for fact-checking — and who should be doing it.

In the Nieman Lab's predictions for journalism in 2022, j. Siguru Wahutu expresses hope for a humbler media ecosystem.

Ethan Zuckerman points to a mailing list in rural Vermont as a potential way forward for a more equitable Internet. "We need people to take responsibility for fixing…

Godwin's Law states that the likelihood of referencing Nazis increases as online discussions grow. But after analyzing nearly 200 million Reddit posts, Dariusz Jemielniak and…

A metaLAB (at) Harvard project illustrates how a movement such as #MeToo is constituted by masses of unobserved tweets.

Allissa Richardson examines how African American mobile journalism became a model for marginalized people’s political communication across the United States.

"The inexplicability [of machine learning models] is not a drawback but a truth."

Afsaneh Rigot writes that requirements for real identities on the Internet pose immense safety and security issues — especially for marginalized persons.

evelyn douek offers an explanation for why the Facebook Papers have failed to make as much of an impact internationally.

Katya Abazajian writes about the difficulties that arise when government agencies are reluctant to share information with each other.

Katya Abazajian writes about the difficulties that arise when government agencies are reluctant to share information with each other.

Ethan Zuckerman points out room for improvement in Facebook's openness to misinformation research.

Ethan Zuckerman writes that his dismal experience creating and experiencing metaverses almost 30 years ago could be a lesson for Facebook.

Twitter’s recent opening of its image-cropping algorithm is a step forward in social media research, Sasha Costanza-Chock tells Morning Brew.

John Bowers, Will Marks, and Jonathan Zittrain propose a path forward for how to improve content moderation

Joan Donovan explains the dangers of spreading falsehoods on social media and the challenges with stopping misinformation.

evelyn douek explores the impacts of the Facebook Oversight Board

Martha Minow explains why the government must save local news.

Joan Donovan shares insights on the government's ability to control misinformation on social media.

Hilary Ross comments on how government may be able to help the state of local news. 

Jonathan Zittrain and Deb Roy will teach a seminar on the design of digital media at Harvard Law School in Fall 2021.

Hilary Ross calls for the expansion of public media to combat disinformation.

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

Julie Owono shares challenges of maintaining freedom of expression on the internet.

Joan Donavan and Yochai Benkler share insights on the causes and effects of disinformation

Jonas Kaiser and colleague evaluate the impact of deplatforming

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.

Joan Donovan shares findings from her research on vaccine misinformation.

Joan Donovan explores vaccine disinformation and the election.

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

Sameer Hinduja shares insights on how to address cyberbullying.

Bruce Schneier and colleague Henry Farrell published a new report via the Johns Hopkins Stavros Niarchos Foundation.

Chinmayi Arun examines the Oversight Board’s decision in the context of the options before it.

Looking back at topic-based social networks may offer one way forward for social media

Danielle Citron says making social media sites act on content such as nonconsensual porn and violent conspiracies would make the internet more equal and free

Allissa Richardson interviewed by WBUR

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

Zenzele Best provides an overview of the 2020-2021 Assembly Student Fellowship

Joan Donovan discusses “post truth,” press manipulation, and right-wing media lies

Susan Benesch says human rights law could guide social media companies to regulate hateful speech

A Q&A with evelyn douek

Allissa Richardson joins Slate’s Amicus podcast

BKC community members weigh in on political misinformation

Allissa Richardson discusses filming police encounters

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.

Allissa Richardson argues against sharing videos of violent police encounters in an op-ed for Vox.

Dr. Allissa Richardson spoke with WUSA9 about having Black deaths aired on TV

Preserving records of what user content is taken down—and why—could make platforms more accountable and transparent

Joan Donovan discusses QAnon with CNN.

evelyn douek comments on the Facebook Oversight Board

James Mickens discusses combatting disinformation in a seminar for the Assembly Student Fellows of 2021.

Joan Donovan discusses disinformation on YouTube with The Washington Post.

evelyn douek speaks with Politico about the Facebook Oversight Board

Members of BKC community share suggestions for building bluesky

Joan Donovan and colleagues publish a whole-of-society approach to countering spam, scams, and hoaxes

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

Jessica Fjeld speaks with New York Times about content moderation on Google Podcasts

Berkman Klein event explores the early years of online platforms, the state of current platforms, and the future

Three community members discuss how young Black people use technology for activism around the world

evelyn douek discusses Amazon profiting from sales of conspiracy theory books

Research from Joan Donovan and colleague shows how right-wing media enabled a disinformation campaign around The 1619 Project

Crystal Lee speaks about her research on COVID skeptics with Slate

Joan Donovan speaks with NPR

Joan Donovan talks to CNN about political disinformation campaigns.

Joan Donovan in The Verge

Jasmine McNealy joins a discussion on tackling misinformation and disinformation

evelyn douek discusses the increasing use of alternative platforms

Oumou Ly and Ethan Zuckerman featured in a publication from All Tech Is Human on Improving Social Media.

Yochai Benkler weighs in on tech's impact on democracy in The New York Times

Jonas Kaiser and colleagues publish in International Journal of Communication

Oumou Ly discusses conspiracy theories on the ‘Things That Go Boom’ podcast.

Jonathan Zittrain speaks to the New York Times

Zeynep Tufekci on why everyone should stop 'doomscrolling'

Yochai Benkler spoke to the New York Times about election disinformation lawsuits

Danielle Citron and colleague argue that Trump should not be allowed back on social media

Joan Donovan discusses QAnon, disinformation, and platform responsibility in Nature.

Joan Donovan draws parallels between Occupy Wall Street and GameStop

Apryl Williams puts memes in historical, cultural context

An interview with james Siguru Wahutu

Joan Donovan and colleague argue that antitrust enforcement will hold platforms accountable

Will Marks discusses the “Great Deplatforming” in Just Security.

Julie Owono says content moderation needs a more global approach

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

Sarah Sobieraj on online attacks against women, what they mean for America, and what can be done about them.

Joan Donovan describes how disinformation can contribute to radicalization in The New Yorker.

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.

Ethan Zuckerman on WNYC

An excerpt of Ethan Zuckerman’s book, “Mistrust”

Crystal Lee and colleagues publish a preprint of their paper ahead of ACM CHI 2021.

Joan Donovan and Rob Faris pen op-ed calling for media accountability

Joan Donovan discusses the Capitol attack and disinformation

Ethan Zuckerman says insurrectionism can be a civically responsible form of social change

Ruth Okediji reflects on the attacks on the U.S. Capitol, the state of democracy, and the role of digital technologies in politics today.

Mutale Nkonde and colleagues publish in HKS Misinformation Review

evelyn douek weighs in on Twitter removing Trump

Shagun Jhaver speaks to Newsweek about his Twitter research

Woodrow Hartzog and colleague argue social media companies should be held accountable

Politico interviews Joan Donovan about misinformation

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

Susan Benesch pens an op-ed about the dangers of Trump’s rhetoric.

Joan Donovan and colleague warn against using facial recognition technology in Slate

Ethan Zuckerman calls for a new vision of social media

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

Joan Donovan and colleagues say the storm on the Capitol was the culmination of a presidency defined by media manipulation and networked conspiracism

Joan Donovan on what lawmakers and companies need to do to address the weaponization of social media and disinformation

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.

Yochai Benkler talks with The Washington Post

Joan Donovan shares four tips for journalists covering pro-Trump rallies and far-right groups for Journalist’s Resource.

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

Joan Donovan joins Marketplace Tech podcast

Rebecca Tushnet in the New York Times

Danielle Citron says Twitter should change their rules for public officials.

Joan Donovan speaks with NBC News

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

Jonas Kaiser and colleague discuss YouTube's recommendation algorithm

Apryl Williams publishes in Social Media + Society

evelyn douek joins Marketplace Tech podcast to discuss YouTube and disinformation

Jonas Kaiser shares his predictions for journalism in 2021 with NiemanLab.

Yochai Benkler speaks with CNN about media coverage of misinformation

NiemanLab shares takeaways from Joan Donovan’s BKC webinar

Elizabeth Renieris spoke with Good ID about the importance of anonymity online

Trump and fellow Republicans are trying to dismantle beliefs in democracy, argue Bruce Schneier and Henry Farrell

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

Joan Donovan comments on platform approaches to harassment and what it means for researchers

evelyn douek talks with Bloomberg about YouTube’s election response

Platform governance and the 2020 Presidential Election

Tressie McMillan Cottom says the new president will be inclined to do less. He must be pushed to do more.

Online platforms aren’t transparent about their decisions—which masks the true costs of misinformation

Joan Donovan comments on Facebook’s takedown efforts during the election