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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

The inventor of the World Wide Web has a new vision to rescue it.

Ethan Zuckerman envisions a review service built in Solid

Google and Facebook aren’t infringing on the right’s freedom of expression, but insisting otherwise is politically convenient.

DiResta, an affiliate, will be the program’s research manager

BKC affiliate Simin Kargar says Iran for years has harassed journalists, political dissidents and artists in its internal disinformation campaigns

A report that the Epstein was injured in jail dredged up a conspiracy theory about the Clintons — and thanks to a hashtag, the baseless rumor likely has a whole lot of new…

What Technical Debt Can Teach Us About the Dangers of AI Working Too Well

Can insurance companies refuse to cover the costs of a cyberattack linked to nation-state actors?

Jonathan Zittrain argues that overreliance on artificial intelligence may put us in intellectual debt

Q&A with Journalist’s Resource offers advice for journalists

Twitter has ceded responsibility for governing its own platform to its most prolific and controversial user, says BKC affiliate Joan Donovan.

Dragana Kaurin says that Libra is getting more out of the relationship than Mercy Corps