Bruce Schneier and coauthors argue that even attempted cyberattacks on election infrastructure can erode public trust in elections' integrity across party lines.

Petra Molnar details a disturbing new artificial intelligence platform - ICERAID.us - which "offers cryptocurrency rewards to users who upload photos of 'suspicious activity' along the border." ...

Greg Leppert weighs in on AI developers' use of written texts, rather than simply digital ones, to train LLMs. "A book collection steeped in 19th century thought could also be 'immensely critical' for ...

In the first weekly issue of Platformocracy, Jonathan Bellack argues that Bluesky is nearing the end of the timeframe in which it can build a truly participatory content moderation process. Among ...

BKC Affiliate Kathy Pham introduces The United States Digital Service Origins, an oral history of the USDS featuring nearly 50 interviews telling the story of technology and government. Alongside ...

In The Atlantic, Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain probes policy questions raised by the “assumptions” large language models make about users. “Gleaning a model’s assumptions is just the beginning.

"Whether blockchain will serve as a tool for democratization or an extension of existing inequities will be determined not just by technical innovation, but by the collective choices of those who ...

I am grateful to have been part of the first cohort of fellows at the Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. Over the past six months, my fellowship has ...

"It is time to stop treating disinformation as a user behavior problem and start seeing it for what it is: a structural, infrastructural, and systemic problem engineered by design." Faculty Associate ...

Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders offer some optimistic reflections on the rise of AI-written legislation, though they concede that such AI use should be disclosed. Read more from the authors at ...

Salomé Viljoen warns that the Trump Administration's attempts at monetary efficiency (e.g., via DOGE) mask its increasing goal over the US's data infrastructure. "To understand the authoritarian ...

The TikTok divest-or-ban order was signed one year ago. The Institute for Rebooting Media spoke with researchers and legal experts to learn about the order’s impact on expression, governance, and the ...