For the New York Daily News, Data & Society Media Manipulation Researcher Lead Joan Donovan and Research Analyst Brian Friedberg critique Facebook's stance on hate speech on their platform. "Through coordination and ex... Read on NY Daily News

For Points, Data & Society Postdoctoral Scholar Caroline Jack reviews the history of advertising imaginaries. "The question of what protections ads themselves deserve, and to what degree people deserve to be protected fr... Read on Points

Data & Society President and Founder danah boyd and Media Manipulation Research Lead Joan Donovan challenge newsrooms to practice "strategic silence" to avoid amplifying extremist messaging. "Editors used to engage in stra... Read on The Guardian

Jack Flynn and Data & Society Research Analyst Kinjal Dave examine the role of the Koch brothers at Villanova. "In order to preserve academic freedom and integrity on campus, the university must introduce substantive measu... Read on Forvm

D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman writes about fake news and the bigger problem behind fake news. The truly disturbing truth is that fake news isn't the cause of our contemporary political dysfunction. More troublingly, we live ... Read on Deutsche Welle

D&S fellow Zara Rahman donates part of her Shuttleworth Flash Grant to the Human Rights Data Analysis Group and Global Voices. So here's the thing: I don't think we need only innovative ideas or world-changing projects. We... Read on Globalvoices.org

D&S advisor Ethan Zuckerman wrote an op-ed detailing the issue of normalizing the abnormal. My deep fear is that there's no single set of Hallin's spheres anymore. What's consensus to a Trump supporter may be deviant to a ... Read on CNN

D&S Researcher Tim Hwang and Samuel Woolley consider the larger trend toward automated politics and the likely future sophistication of automated politics and potential impacts on the public sphere in the era of social medi... Read on Slate

Today, press ethics are intertwined with platform design ethics, and press freedom is shared with software designers. The people at Facebook, Twitter, Flipboard, Pulse and elsewhere have a new and significant role in how news c... Read on Nieman Lab