Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society

A daylong conference hosted by Harvard’s Applied Social Media Lab focused on strategies for fostering healthier, more satisfying civil discourse online.

How have political campaigns prepared themselves to navigate the challenges of disinformation in 2024? What lessons have they learned from past elections, and what strategies…

Join the Harvard community for a premiere screening of the award-winning 2024 biopic about the life of Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, a renowned African suffragette and mother…

Join us for a lecture by Prof. Won L. Kidane, Professor of Law and Director of the South Africa Program at the Villanova University School…

On 11-13 October 2024, the Center for the Study of African Societies and Economies (CSASE) will be hosting Africa Alive! 2024, an unprecedented gathering of Harvard’s…

Last year some economists documented something both surprising and sensible about social media: many people would pay a lot to keep using their favorite platforms, and…

Harvard Law digital privacy expert Leah Plunkett says that children’s data safety is just one of many problems with kids’ use of popular apps like TikTok.

Join us for an engaging discussion led by the Applied Social Media Lab’s Project Fellow Adesola Sanusi as she presents key insights from her action…

Join Lawrence Lessig (Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership at Harvard Law School) and Claudia Chwalisz (Founder and CEO of DemocracyNext) for a discussion on the future…

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Carl T. Bergstrom for a talk exploring social media’s impact on the scale of human communication and our mechanisms for creating…

At a time of growing concern regarding platform power, what kinds of claims can we make to access platform data? If we allow access, how…

IP expert Gary R. Greenstain says Taylor Swift singlehandedly shifted copyright considerations by recording "Taylor's Version" of her early albums.

Harvard Law School celebrates the Caselaw Access Project and its efforts to transform justice with the digitization of millions of pages of case law.

Harvard Law experts Martha Minow and Rosalie Abella argue that predictive algorithms and AI could amp up and amplify existing inequities.

A new initiative by metaLAB (at) Harvard teaches educators how to integrate AI into their pedagogy.

Harvard Law School Professor Ruth Okediji says that while the Biden administration’s proposal to use federal ‘march-in’ rights to lower drug costs is an important development, it may be more a signal than the initiation of a workable plan.

Nigeria’s UN Ambassador Abiodun Richards Adejola and Dr. Victor Oladokun, a senior African Development Bank Group adviser, discussed multilateral challenges and opportunities at a recent event.

Matthew Pekoske, a lieutenant commander with the U.S. Coast Guard, is hoping his time catching drug smugglers will translate to stopping cyberattacks.

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.