How do the algorithms that populate our social media feeds actually work? In a piece for Time Magazine excerpted from his recent book Robin Hood Math, Noah Giansiracusa sheds light on the algorithms ...

Alongside two coauthors, Bruce Schneier argues that the US government and semiconductor firms alike must enforce (and comply with the enforcement of) regulations.

Ryan Kellett explores resistance to the "labels, markers, and/or pedigree of traditional journalism," suggesting that "code-switching" toward and away from the journalist label can be strategically ...

Josh is also the co-founder and Chief Science Officer of Covariance.ai, an MIT-based startup named to the STEX25 and awarded ...

The DPLA empowers people to learn, grow, and contribute to a diverse and better-functioning society by maximizing public access to our shared history, culture, and knowledge.

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

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 ...

Censorship, filtering, throttling, dead links, blockages. The health of the Internet can be measured by the ease with which its users can access and share information. We develop tools and research to ...

Our projects focus on a wide range of issues, addressing complex questions through a variety of methods. We conduct research, teach, learn, and share ideas, and foster networks and connections across ...

The potential emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) is plausible and should be taken seriously by the U.S. national security community. Yet the pace and… ...

Networked technologies are complex, multi-layered, interdependent, and subject to multiple competing interests. Through original research and by creating connections between stakeholders, we work to ...

Media Cloud is an open source, open data platform that allows researchers to answer complex quantitative and qualitative questions about the content of online media.