Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   In this talk David Rand will give an overview of his work assessing various interventions against misinformation and “fake news” on social media. He will start by briefly discussing the limitations of two of the most commonly discussed approaches: warnings based on […]

Featuring Professor Toni Griffin and Professor Khalil Muhammad Join the Institutional Anti Racism and Accountability Project (IARA) to celebrate the final week of the Undesign the Redline Exhibit at the Kennedy School. The event will include a talk from Professor Toni Griffin from the Harvard Graduate School of Design on her work at the Just

Join us for an evening of engaging conversation around the public interest technology domain. Organizations that aim to elevate meaningful participation in the public interest technology domain face unique product challenges, and have valuable lessons to share. A couple of experienced founders and product leaders in this space will tell their stories and conduct a

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. The Internet is increasingly the home of democracy. It is where people turn for civic information, engage in political discourse public and private, and turn to mobilize collectively. The virtual structures of the Internet are, in some ways, quite distinct from what

Join us for a conversation with Tara Westover, author and Shorenstein Center A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence, and Shorenstein Center Director and former editor in chief of TIME Magazine, Nancy Gibbs. You can find more information about the event, and the live stream here. Tara Westover is the author of Educated, and current A.M. Rosenthal Writer-in-Residence at

What began six years ago as an environmentalist youth resistance in the heart of Istanbul marked a sharp autocratic turn for Turkey’s strongman, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. Ever since then, his moves resulted in subordinating journalism and the judiciary; driving wedges into the opposition; brutally crushing dissent; profiting from one crisis to another; and, currently, war.

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. The spread of hate speech and violent conduct. The disinformation problem and foreign election interference. Alleged suppression of political speech. Persistent breaches of public trust. These and countless other incidents have led

Join us for a seminar with the Shorenstein Center’s Digital Platforms & Democracy Senior Fellows: Tom Wheeler, Dipayan Ghosh, Philip Verveer, and Gene Kimmelman. In recent months, leading U.S. politicians including Senators Elizabeth Warren and Lindsay Graham have raised questions about the monopoly power of internet platform firms like Facebook and Google. But is it