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Police gather on social media in order to prevent and investigate criminal activity. But the clues found within aren't always conclusive

"Data scientists must recognize themselves as political actors and adopt an explicit politics of social justice."

A ‘Magna Carta for the web’ will protect people’s rights online from threats such as fake news, prejudice and hate, says founder of the world wide web

Surveying and explaining open science initiatives and tools

Can fake doctored videos — known as “deepfakes” — impact elections?

On the surge in misinformation since the 2016 elections

Do big social media platforms have effective ad policies?

Our Youth & Media team looked at how teens are using social media to figure out who they are.

Papers related to communication and design of communication systems

40 million pages of U.S. court decisions made available free and in-full online for the first time

Does the web produce particular outcomes because of how it is built, or does it merely reflect society?

On “dangerous speech” in the context of Donald Trump’s rhetoric

Scaling up computer security arguments to the level of the state, so that the entire polity is treated as an information system with associated attack surfaces and threat models,…

Technological advances such as artificial intelligence applied to the Internet of things are allowing the machines not only to connect with each other, but also to create their…

When machine learning systems fail because of adversarial manipulation, how should society expect the law to respond?

Online tech platforms should become “information fiduciaries”

All phones are vulnerable to hacking

The HLS Cyberlaw Clinic helped receive an exemption to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act anti-circumvention provisions to allow libraries, archivists, museums, and other…

BKC shares insights on privacy with governments at the International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners

Announcing a Competition for Ethics in Computer Science, with up to $3.5 Million in Prizes