"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 ...

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.

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 ...

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

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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 ...

Affiliates Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that the future of AI's impacts on democratic processes is unwritten, and whether the technology is used to liberate or to oppress depends largely on ...

Faculty Associate Ethan Zuckerman casts a critical eye on OpenAI's Sora, an AI video generator. Owing to public backlash, OpenAI has opened itself up to requests from public figures to restrict the ...

Jack Cushman joins the Pioneers and Pathfinders podcast, reflecting on his journey from programming to law school and on the skills that today's lawyers ought to hone to meet the moment.