Social media is undergoing a transformation toward open Internet technologies. What will that future look like? And how will this affect the pressing needs of users: algorithmic choice, less toxicity, ...

Our contemporary debates about cybersecurity, surveillance and the law are steeped in 21st century technology, but the problem of interception is not new.  Surveillance and information warfare played ...

The Applied Social Media Lab is excited to open its doors for a Spring Synthesizer bringing together current projects, new ...

I am grateful to have been part of the first cohort of fellows at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein ...

Magdalena Greco is a third (and last) year PhD student in Legal Studies at Bocconi University, curriculum International and European Law, working on the interface between international intellectual ...

Virgilio Almeida and coauthors explore the (false) tension between regulation and innovation, arguing that democratic regulation can ensure that citizens have a role in shaping algorithmic ...

Magda Romanska argues that we're nearing a frightening form of technological totalitarianism.

How is WhatsApp, the most popular instant messaging platform, mediating the spread of extreme speech in different contexts of the world? What does a global view of the actual practices around this ...

Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor challenge notions of AI as an existential threat. They view AI as a “normal” technology, akin to electricity: "To view AI as normal is not to understate its ...