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Jonathan Zittrain
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At Berkman Klein event, experts say ‘facts can’t fix’ social media’s most urgent problems
November 25, 2024
Empathy, understanding, and less algorithmic amplification on social media platforms are the best ways to combat conspiracy theories, experts say at Berkman Klein Center event.
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Shine On
September 30, 2024
Lumen, a catalog of takedown requests, helps to illuminate efforts to shape the internet through means fair and foul
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Social media experts discuss moving beyond ‘discourse dumpster fires’
September 25, 2024
A daylong conference hosted by Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab focused on strategies for fostering healthier, more satisfying civil discourse online.
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How to make social media, online life less of ‘dumpster fire’
September 18, 2024
Popular social media platforms were once a place to connect with old and new friends, post life updates, and share photos of your kids. But…
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We Need to Control AI Agents Now
July 8, 2024
An article by Jonathan Zittrain: In 2010—well before the rise of ChatGPT and Claude and all the other sprightly, conversational AI models—an army of bots…
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Proactive AI Policy
May 10, 2024
Artificial Intelligence is developing faster than policymakers can keep up, and the gap in understanding between government and industry could pose challenges for effective regulation.
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Making the Public Record Public
April 4, 2024
Generally, librarians are tasked with protecting books. But over the past decade, Harvard Law School (HLS) librarians have sent tens of thousands of books to…
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Faculty share stories of an intellectual about-face
April 4, 2024
Harvard Law experts Janet Halley, Juliette Kayyem, and Ruth Okediji share moments of reckoning when they changed their minds, at an event moderated by Jonathan Zittrain.
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Amanda Watson appointed new assistant dean for library and information services at Harvard Law School
April 1, 2024
Amanda Watson will join the Harvard Law School Library as assistant dean for library and information services in August 2024.
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The Caselaw Access Project — Then, Now, Tomorrow
March 21, 2024
An op-ed by Adam Ziegler: On my left: the edge of the off-ramp, a modest guardrail, and a fifty-foot drop. On my right, inching closer: a…
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Harvard Law School celebrates the Caselaw Access Project and its efforts to transform justice with the digitization of millions of pages of case law.
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Harvard Law Releases 40M Pages Of Digitized Case Law
March 11, 2024
Harvard Law School’s Library Innovation Lab is releasing nearly 40 million pages of scanned case law for free as part of the Caselaw Access Project,…
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Matthew D. Pekoske LL.M. ’24, leading at sea and in the law
November 8, 2023
Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.
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How facial-recognition app poses threat to privacy, civil liberties
October 27, 2023
At a Berkman Klein Center event, tech reporter Kashmir Hill discussed her book on Clearview AI, a small company that launched a facial-recognition app in 2017.
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In certain ways, Meta Platforms Inc. is a complicated company. It runs an ever-growing collection of social media apps—Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Threads—and the virtual-reality…
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HLS Beyond provides students with opportunties for less formal learning
September 20, 2023
An initiative led by the Harvard Law School Library offers workshops on cutting-edge topics and skills for life and lawyering.
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How to think about AI
June 27, 2023
Machine-generated output is raising a host of legal and ethical questions around authorship, fair use, copyright, and more.
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The Future of Social Media Is a Lot Less Social
April 20, 2023
Nearly two decades ago, Facebook exploded on college campuses as a site for students to stay in touch. Then came Twitter, where people posted about…