Key Elements and Functions of a New Digital Regulatory Agency

This Policy Paper is part of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project’s efforts to explain and disseminate ideas about regulation of major technology and digital platform companies. Click here to read more of their research and commentary. This paper is an evolution on the ideas first laid out in Gene Kimmelman’s September 2019 Policy Paper, The […]

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CANCELLED: Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting 2020 Panel Discussion

This event has been cancelled. A panel discussion with the finalists for the 2020 Goldsmith Prize for Investigative Reporting. Finalists include: The Arizona Republic, USA TODAY, and the Center for Public Integrity; Anchorage Daily News; The Oregonian/OregonLive; The Washington Post; Kaiser Health News; and NBC News. The winner will be announced at the Goldsmith Awards

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Surviving an Enemy of the Press: Lessons from Russia

Ann Cooper is a Spring 2020 Joan Shorenstein Fellow, she has more than 25 years of radio and print reporting experience. She also worked as executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists prior to joining the Columbia Journalism School faculty, where she retired in 2019 as CBS Professor Emerita of Professional Practice. Cooper’s voice

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CANCELLED: Follow the Ad: Uncovering Election Interference behind Data-Driven Digital Platforms

This event has been cancelled. Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University. Election interference raises grave normative concerns. Unfortunately, due to conceptual and methodological challenges, little scientific knowledge has been generated about election interference. This talk discusses the mechanisms by which election interference occurred and the extent to which it

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YochaiBenkler

Don’t panic. It’s just the collapse of neoliberalism.

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   Yochai Benkler is the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School, and faculty co-director of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. Since the 1990s he has played a role in characterizing the role of

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AndyGuess

Can media literacy reduce belief in false news? Evidence from the United States and India

Part of the speaker series on misinformation, co-sponsored by the NULab at Northeastern University.   Andrew Guess (Ph.D. Columbia University) is an assistant professor of politics and public affairs at Princeton University. His research and teaching interests lie at the intersection of political communication, public opinion, and political behavior. Via a combination of experimental methods, large datasets,

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David Rand

Understanding and reducing the spread of misinformation online

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

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Spring 2020 Shorenstein Fellows

This spring, the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy will welcome a group of highly accomplished media professionals to Harvard Kennedy School as Shorenstein Fellows. The cohort includes working journalists, academics, and media business executives. They will join the Shorenstein Center as active members of the intellectual community at the Kennedy School, conducting

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Announcing the HKS Misinformation Review

The Shorenstein Center is proud to announce the launch of a new peer-reviewed journal, the Harvard Kennedy School Misinformation Review. The HKS Misinformation Review is an open-source, interdisciplinary, scholarly journal focused on all aspects of misinformation and featuring methodologically diverse, peer-reviewed, empirical research and cutting-edge commentary. Articles and commentaries published by the HKS Misinformation Review are edited

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