D&S researcher danah boyd discusses the problem with asking companies like Facebook and Google to 'solve' fake news - boyd insists the context of complex social problems are missing in this problematic solutionism of solvin... Read on Points

Jennifer Pan presents How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, not Engaged Argument.      The Chinese government has long been suspected of hiring as many as 2,000,0... Read more

danah boyd responds to criticism of her essays, "Did Media Literacy Backfire?" and "Hacking the Attention Economy." Read on Points

D&S founder danah boyd responds to remarks by the Trump administration stating that their opposition is the media. And now many of the actors most set on undermining institutionalized information intermediaries are in the ... Read on Zephoria.org

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 founder danah boyd begins to sketch out how hacking culture evolved from playful efforts to game the media ecosystem to more complex and politicized projects of social engineering, propaganda, and activism in "Hacking t... Read on Points

Data & Society releases six new essays on the networked public sphere written by danah boyd, Robyn Caplan, Caroline Jack, and Alice Marwick. Read on Points

In “How do you deal with a problem like ‘fake news?’” D&S researcher Robyn Caplan weighs in on the potential — and pitfalls — of efforts to curb Facebook’s fake news problem. Read on Points

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

In “Did Media Literacy Backfire?” D&S founder danah boyd argues that the thorny problems of fake news and the spread of conspiracy theories have, in part, origins in efforts to educate people against misinformation. At the ... Read on Points