Can artificial intelligence supplant friendship by providing quality communication? No, argues Jeffrey Hall: "It may taste like friendship, but it lacks the fundamental ingredients." ...

Jessica Fjeld calls for coalition between movement technologists and movement lawyers to push for structural changes in the face of advancing authoritarianism.

Social media platforms have become increasingly opaque at precisely the moment their influence on society has reached ...

The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard Law School’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society is pleased to announce the ...

Internet censorship is an (in)visible threat that is increasingly becoming more pervasive around the world -- often impacting vulnerable communities the most.

Harvard Berkman Klein Center’s Applied Social Media Lab Invites Collaborators in Open Source Development of Groundbreaking ...

Anupam Chander observes that the Trump Administration's seeming warmth toward Big Tech may have been a ruse. "Early hopes among Big Tech leaders for a friendly Administration have given way to a harsh ...

Jon Penney and Nathan Matias offer commentary on a 2023 lawsuit filed against Meta which alleged that its social media platforms harm young users' mental health.

Dia Kayyali spoke to Petra Molnar and other experts to ascertain how the Trump administration is using AI for immigration enforcement.

Faculty Associate Petra Molnar warns that AI-driven visa revocation programs chill discourse and weaken civil society at large.

The blending of generative AI with strategic foresight practices means that algorithms can predict trends with uncanny accuracy, writes Mark Esposito.

Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan joined the New York Times podcast Hard Fork to unpack his paper coauthored with Sayash Kapoor, "AI as Normal Technology," which challenges utopic and dystopic ...