Skip to the main content

Community

The Latest

Stories, videos, podcasts, and more from our community of staff, fellows, faculty associates, and affiliates

Nieman Lab

Predictions for Journalism

Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism 2025 enlists "some of the smartest people in journalism and media" to anticipate what's coming next year.

Dec 16, 2024
The Atlantic

The Government’s Disturbing Rationale for Banning TikTok

Vague national-security concerns don’t justify shutting down the popular Chinese-owned app.

Evelyn Douek vehemently disagrees with a federal court's ruling against TikTok.

Dec 12, 2024
Washington Post

TikTok’s case is a stunning swing toward paternalism

Congress passed a law because it doesn’t trust Americans with freedom of speech.

Anupam Chandler and G.S. Hans argue that the Supreme Court should hear TikTok's appeal, arguing that attempts to ban the app violate the First Amendment.

Dec 12, 2024
New York Academy of Sciences

Loneliness and Social Media

Jeffrey Hall surveys the extant literature on the relationship between social media use and loneliness.

Dec 12, 2024
Flipboard

Making Better Networks for Humans

Darius Kazemi and Erin Kissane discuss their recent work on the 'fediverse,' continuing to make the case for federated and decentralized social platforms.

Dec 11, 2024
CommonWealth Beacon

Does AI interfere in our democracy?

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders join Jennifer Smith to discuss ways to wield AI toward pro-democratic ends.

Dec 9, 2024
The Atlantic

Around the Globe, Governments Lean into AI

Mark Esposito examines how governments around the world are beginning to deploy AI.

Dec 8, 2024
LSE Blog

The elite contradictions of generative AI

Nick Couldry offers his vision of the future, and of AI's role in it.

Dec 6, 2024
Indiana Legal Studies

On Software Bugs and Legal Bugs

Product Liability in the Age of Code

Asaf Lubin points out interstate inconsistencies in legal definitions of 'products,' and contrasts the US's and the EU's approaches to considering software as products.

Dec 5, 2024
Tech Policy Press

In the War on Migrants, A Trump Win is Really a Win for Big Tech

Petra Molnar warns that emerging surveillance technologies will make violence against migrants even more prominent.

Dec 4, 2024
Boston Review

Trust Issues

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders suggest that AI's history is not its destiny.

Dec 4, 2024
The Conversation

The apocalypse that wasn’t

AI was everywhere in 2024’s elections, but deepfakes and misinformation were only part of the picture

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders observe that AI's role in 2024 elections wasn't as disastrous as some had feared.

Dec 2, 2024
Next Center for Internet & Society

The computerization of the world and international cooperation

Juan Carlos De Martin proposes "the computerization of the world" as a new way of capturing the sentiment of "the Digital Revolution," and suggests three goals that today's…

Dec 1, 2024
Science

Misinformation exploits outrage to spread online

Kate Klonick and coauthors test the hypothesis that misinformation exploits outrage to gain traction online.

Nov 28, 2024
The Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence

Towards Real Diversity and Gender Equality in AI

Paola Ricaurte Quijano, expert committee member, and colleagues at the Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence launch the report "Towards Substantive Equality in Artificial…

Nov 27, 2024
theAnalysis.news

AI Border Surveillance Tech Profits Soar, Human Rights Across the Board Sink

Petra Molnar highlights how surveillance technology firms profit from harsh anti-immigration policies in the US, Canada, and the EU.

Nov 27, 2024
WIRED

Algorithms Are Coming for Democracy—but It's Not All Bad

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer a potentially optimistic outlook on AI and politics.

Nov 26, 2024
SSRN

The Next Phase of the Data Economy

Economic & Technological Perspectives

BKC affiliates and alumni are among the co-authors of a paper that envisions the future of the data economy.

Nov 25, 2024
Harvard Law Today

‘Facts can’t fix this’

Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event

BKC-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga and Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook share their insights on how platforms navigate the spread of conspiracy theories, and the impact they have on…

Nov 24, 2024
The Hill

Democrats flee X for Bluesky amid Musk-Trump alliance

ASML's Jonathan Bellack weighs in on the uptick in Twitter/X users migrating to Bluesky.

Nov 23, 2024