Greg Gondwe studies the role of encrypted messaging apps (primarily WhatsApp) in spreading disinformation during South Africa's 2024 general elections.

Faculty Associate Kate Klonick and Alan Rozenshtein talk to Columbia law professor Tim Wu about Wu's new book, “The Age of Extraction: How Tech Platforms Conquered the Economy and Threaten Our Future ...

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders look to examples from around the globe to anticipate how the 2026 midterm elections might be shaped by AI.

"Even with the support of new emerging regulations, independent researchers still face major barriers to accessing even basic social media data essential for studying everything from election ...

Affiliate and former fellow Johanna Wild details her efforts to make it simpler for journalists to find and use open-source research tools.

: This event has been postponed.AI may very well be the most transformative technology of our century, but who should ...

How are technologies being misused to undermine democratic processes? Where might we have leverage to steer things back on ...

Join Alan Raul (Harvard College ’75, HKS MPA ’77) and Justin Curl (HLS ’26) for a discussion of the Trump Administration's ...

AI may very well be the most transformative technology of our century, but who should regulate it? Is it the job of ...

In a new piece for PeerJ Computer Science, Faculty Associate Samer Hassan and coauthors chronicle the history of decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) as a non-finance application for ...

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Join the Applied Social Media Lab for the 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase! 🗓 Thursday, December 4 | 2:00 pm-5:00 pm📍 5th ...