MediaWell: Live research from the digital edges of democracy

by Shraddha Chakradhar

April 28, 2022

You’re in a WhatsApp or Facebook Messenger group with people you know and interact with regularly. Maybe it’s a family…

by Joshua Benton

April 6, 2022

It would be difficult to design a social platform more optimized for disinformation than WhatsApp. Each of its best features…

by Joel Simon

March 23, 2022

Lindsey Hilsum, a correspondent for Britain’s Channel 4 News, is one of the most experienced conflict reporters covering the Ukraine…

by Shirin Ghaffary and Sara Morrison

February 17, 2022

This story is part of a Recode series about Big Tech and antitrust. Over the next few weeks, we’ll cover…

by Ahskan Kazemi, Kiran Garimella, Devin Gaffney, Scott A. Hale, and Gautam Kishore Shahi

February 1, 2022

There is currently no easy way to discover potentially problematic content on WhatsApp and other end-to-end encrypted platforms at scale.…

by Umar Farooq

December 17, 2021

Istanbul, Turkey – Every day, Emre İlkan Saklica scrolls through endless social media feeds, delving into the latest trends and…

October 13, 2021

Abstract: Recent trends of migration to smaller social media platforms among right wing actors have raised a caution that an…

July 28, 2021

Extremism Online In this essay series from Items, the SSRC’s digital forum, researchers examine how right-wing extremism ideologies multiply through…

by Meghna Rao

May 25, 2021

Last July, my 80-year-old grandfather woke up in the middle of the night, unable to recognize any of the people…

by Jeff Ernst

May 11, 2021

On November 3, 2020, Hurricane Eta made landfall in Honduras, flooding the valley surrounding the northern city of San Pedro…