Faculty Associate Jon Penny argues that the law banning TikTok has failed. " [A]s of this writing, TikTok remains accessible in the U.S. But it has failed even if it eventually succeeds in forcing ...

Nishant Shah warns that Meta's doing away with content moderation represents a dangerous lack of oversight. "A mix of human and algorithmic detection, flagging, scrutiny, resolution, and oversight has ...

The end of one wildly popular platform is a chance to overhaul the broken social media industry. Rebecca Rinkevich offers insight into the shifting media landscape in the wake of TikTok's short-lived ...

This wiki page has been my main home page since June 2013. My latest book is Knowledge Unbound (MIT Press, 2016). It's available in paperback, hardback, and many open-access editions (same text, ...

Affiliate Ram Shankar Siva Kumar and coauthors suggest ways that Microsoft and other tech giants can mitigate the security risks inherent in emerging AI technologies.

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Ten years since the word "blog" was coined, we evaluate the state of participatory media, assess its potential for serving the public interest and describe likely interventions. Pat Aufderheide and ...

HOAP launched in 2011 to foster open access (OA) within Harvard and beyond, undertake research and policy analysis on OA, and provide OA to timely and accurate information about OA itself.

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders detail the different ways that evolving AI technologies will be used in drafting legislation.

"Every person who, under color of any statute, ordinance, regulation, custom, or usage, of any State . . . subjects, or causes to be subjected, any citizen of the United States or other person within ...

Susan Benesch weighs in on the political implications of Meta's recent change in speech policies.

Consider, now the so-called "Philosopher's Brief." Six eminent American moral philosophers -- Ronald Dworkin, Thomas Nagel, Robert Nozick, John Rawls, Thomas Scanlon, and Judith Jarvis Thomson -- ...