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With election meddling inevitable in 2020, the United States needs a powerful kill chain

Research informs New York Times investigation into YouTube’s recommendations

Non-internet-connected election systems are actually connected to the internet

BKC Faculty Associate Desmond Patton shares his perspective

Research shows that YouTube’s recommendation system pushes users toward extremist content.

What we can learn from cataloging extremely toxic speech on social media platforms and engaging with practitioners of “counterspeech”

Digital pets present an attractive option for many millennials and Gen X-ers whose lifestyles don’t necessarily mesh with owning a pet

Ethan Zuckerman discusses the opportunities and consequences of participatory media.

Predictive AI is too flawed — both technically and ethically — to prevent another El Paso or Dayton.

An exploration of what happens when politically motivated humans impersonate vulnerable people or populations online to exploit their voices, positionality and power.

BKC’s Gretchen Greene talks about the controversy surrounding facial recognition technology

Embedded EthiCS employs a distributed pedagogy that makes ethical reasoning an integral component of courses throughout the standard computer science curriculum.

Trump is a politician perfectly fitted for a media ecosystem that amplifies extreme emotion and allows the loud to drown out the calm

The rapid adoption of the technology by the government has triggered a debate about the algorithms’ trustworthiness and how they are being used.

The decision to disable an infamous message board fell to Matthew Prince, an internet executive who is deeply uncomfortable with his own power.

BKC affiliate responds to El Paso shooting, use of manifestos as a tactic, and explains how extremists manipulate the media to control public conversation

While we often think about those who commit mass violence as acting individually, we must reckon with the fact that these extremists are never alone online.

Incoming BKC fellow Mutale Nkonde says we need a legal definition for harmful speech that could be regulated

Incoming affiliate will bridge industry and academia

BKC affiliate will oversee the Digital Public Sphere Project and continue research on platform regulation, privacy, and antitrust law