This report, Improving Social Media: The People, Organizations, and Ideas for a Better Tech Future is directed at policymakers and social media platforms with the express purpose of creating a more holistic, collective approach to improving social media. Read on Scribd

In the wake of the 2020 global pandemic, governments and corporations worldwide are adopting unprecedented data-gathering practices to stop the spread of COVID-19 and transition to safer and more economically stable futures. This series examines how public and private actors are using pandemic response technologies to capitalize on this extraordinary moment. Read on Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy

HR leaders need to understand that increased monitoring of employees can lead to long-term consequences and misuse. Read on People + Strategy Journal

D&S lawyer-in-residence Rebecca Wexler unpacks how private companies hide flaws in software that the government uses to convict and exonerate people in the criminal justice system. What’s alarming about protecting trade se... Read on Washington Monthly

D&S resident Rebecca Wexler describes the flaws of an increasingly automated criminal justice system The root of the problem is that automated criminal justice technologies are largely privately owned and sold for profit... Read on The New York Times

D&S affiliate Mimi Onuoha details the process of completely deleting data. This overwriting process is a bit like painting a wall: If you start with a white wall and paint it red, there’s no way to erase the red. If you wa... Read on FiveThirtyEight

D&S fellow Zara Rahman writes about how immigrant families use social media and digital technologies. The consequence is that the home of our deeply personal information has gone from treasured letters stored in a box at o... Read on Real Life Magazine

D&S affiliate Kate Crawford and Hito Steyerl converse about "NSA bros, dataveillance, apex predators, AI, and empathy machines." Read on The New Inquiry

D&S artist-in-residence Ingrid Burrington was interviewed for The Intercept about her book and took a walking tour with her interviewer, Cora Currier. I asked Burrington what she hoped people would do with her guide. It is... Read on The Intercept

D&S researcher Josh Scannell wrote an extensive analysis of predictive policing algorithms, showing that, while they were not built to be racist, they mirror a racist system. Northpointe’s algorithms will always be racist,... Read on Real Life Magazine