First amendment legal scholar Claudia Haupt discusses speech protection versus speech regulation and how these issues are approached in various countries around the world. This talk visits and describes different sets of... Read more

In Algorithms of Oppression, Safiya Umoja Noble challenges the idea that search engines like Google offer an equal playing field for all forms of ideas, identities, and activities.     Data discrimination... Read more

For Slate, Data & Society Researcher Jacob Metcalf argues that we should be more concerned about behavioral models developed by entities like Cambridge Analytica, which can be traded between political entities, rather than ... Read on Slate

K. Sabeel Rahman discusses the prospects for remedying private platform power in the 21st century.     The informational, economic, and political influence of the dominant tech platforms — Google, Faceboo... Read more

Philip Napoli and D&S researcher Robyn Caplan write on why companies like Google and Facebook insist that they are merely tech companies with no media impact, and why they are wrong for First Monday. Abstract is below: A c... Read on First Monday

D&S advisor Anil Dash presents the newest episode of On Being. Back in November, I got to sit down with the amazing Krista Tippett for a lengthy interview in front of an incredibly warm crowd in Easton, MD. Now, that inter... Read on AnilDash.com

In “Are There Limits to Online Free Speech?” D&S fellow Alice Marwick argues against simplistic binaries pitting free speech against censorship, looking at how the tech industry’s historic commitment to freedom of speech fa... Read on Points

D&S advisor Anil Dash calls for more specific categorization of tech companies. This also contributes to spreading tech’s well-known shortcomings around inclusion and diversity into new fields. Today, companies described a... Read on AnilDash.com

"This issue goes far beyond the Trending box in the corner of your Facebook profile, and this latest wave of concerns is only the tip of the iceberg around how powerful actors can affect or shape political discourse. What is of... Read on Points

D&S Advisor Andrew McGlaughlin reflects on Facebook's approach to implementing their Free Basics program: In opening a door to the Internet, Facebook doesn’t need to be a gatekeeper The good news, though, is that Facebook ... Read on Medium