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In the last decade, India has seen multiple rounds of communal violence in which rumour and information technology played a role

Democracy and the news media are inextricably intertwined, and it is clear that both are in crisis.

As internet technology continues to be an important part of humanity’s lived experience, humanity as a whole must be empowered to dictate their desired experience.

A research agenda for stakeholders to proactively collaborate and design AI technologies that work with users to improve their health and wellbeing

BKC Affiliate Valentin Weber proposes a bold censorship workaround for activists living under repressive regimes.

Facebook’s plans to stitch together its three main messaging services have put the social network back in the glare of regulators around the world

Berkman Klein Fellow Titi Akinsanmi discusses how policy for digital ID could develop in 2019 and what she hopes to see globally and on the African continent.

"The planned changes will undermine freedom of expression and privacy online, weakening Indian democracy itself."

The story we tell about our right to privacy an interesting one, but distracts us away from work that needs to be done. 

What makes people susceptible to fake news and other forms of strategic misinformation?

In her new book "Memes to Movements," An Xiao Mina explores how people from a historically overlooked nation such as Uganda are able to drive the conversation on issues in…

During confirmation hearings AG nominee William Barr is asked how private social media platform's could explicitly attempt to sway an election, and whether there are any remedies…

This app uses US Census Data and a linguistic algorithm to "Americanize" submitted names, and provoke thought about how names and identities are considered in society

This new publication from the Digital Asia Hub collects the outputs of a two-day speculative fiction–writing workshop held in December 2018

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission’s oversight of the fast-growing cryptocurrency market is on hiatus as the government shutdown lingers.

The recent partnership between privacy-focused search tool Duck Duck Go and Apple has an uncertain implications for the future of privacy on the engine.

Questions are emerging regarding the adequacy of our current economic policies and practices, the social contract between citizens, businesses and governments and the metrics used…

In her new book “Thick: And Other Essays," Berkman Klein Faculty Associate Tressie McMillan Cottom tackles topics ranging from poverty, to race, to healthcare.

A global exploration of internet memes as agents of pop culture, politics, protest, and propaganda on- and offline

A legal education simulation puts students in the role of a county judge at a bail hearing, and prompts them to detain or release individual defendants pending trial.