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

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

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 ...

"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 ...

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.

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 ...

The rapidly growing capabilities and increasing presence of AI-based systems in our lives raise pressing questions about the impact, governance, ethics, and accountability of these technologies around ...

Privacy violations are a serious threat to the health of the Internet and the effective use of technology. We study how people understand their privacy as users of ...

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Dr. Urs Gasser is Professor of Public Policy, Governance, and Innovative Technology at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he serves as Dean of the TUM School of Social Sciences and ...