How to address extremism among veterans | The Brookings Institution
The mob assault on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 opened a new chapter in domestic terrorism. For the first time in our nation’s history, America experienced its first […]
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The True Costs of Misinformation | Network Science Institute
It all feels like a precursor to a bad joke: What do foreign agents, white supremacists, conspiracists, snake oil salesmen, political operatives, white academics, and a disgruntled bunch of zoomers […]
The Post-Soviet Press: A Long Road to Freedom | Shorenstein Center
Thirty years ago this December, the Soviet Union broke up, creating 15 new countries and high expectations that many of them would embrace democracy — including guarantees of freedom of […]
Technology, inequality, and democracy | The Brookings Institution
Advances in digital technologies and artificial intelligence hold great promise to boost economic prosperity. But as these technologies transform nearly every aspect of business and work, they are reshaping growth […]
Abundance: On the Experience of Living in a World of Information Plenty | Annenberg School for Communication
Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was available to know has motivated the creation of systems for […]
From COVID-19 to culture wars: The growing hostility of education politics | The Brookings Institution
For education policymakers, the last two years have been among the most tumultuous and challenging in U.S. history. Issue after issue has stirred controversy, including COVID-induced school closures, mask and […]
Platform Governance: Trust and Transparency | Yale Law School Information Society Project
Civil society and government stakeholders have very low trust in industry, based on repeated violations of the latter’s own promises. Concurrently, information asymmetry is an initial hurdle to both studying […]
Security by Spectacle: The Invention of Gray Hat Hacking & The Fight Against Microsoft in the 1990s | Berkman Klein Center
This talk will draw on research from “Wearing Many Hats,” a forthcoming Data & Society report authored by Matt Goerzen and Gabriella Coleman. Dr. Coleman describes her talk as follows: […]
A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France | Center for Democracy & Technology
A newly released report from the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) – A Lie Can Travel: Election Disinformation in the United States, Brazil, and France – published by Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung […]
Reducing Harm on Social Media: Research & Design Ideas | NYU’s Center for Social Media and Politics
When social media platforms first launched nearly two decades ago, they were seen as a force for good – a way to connect with family and friends, learn and explore […]