Earlier this month the Democracy & Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI) published a report that aimed to provide a new framework for regulating digital media platforms. The report, which is the culmination of a two-year joint research initiative between Harvard...
Online content regulation may be necessary to safeguard democracy and the quality of information people consume amid harmful falsehoods and outright violence. Elon Musk’s October 27 acquisition of Twitter, which entailed massive layoffs for key staff, led to a...
Today, if you were to type the word ‘climate’ into Twitter’s search bar, you would likely have the hashtag #ClimateScam suggested as the very first option. On October 27, Tesla CEO and billionaire Elon Musk acquired Twitter in a highly followed controversial deal that...
Despite clear visual evidence to the contrary, former President Donald Trump and his press secretary, Sean Spicer, insisted that his inauguration crowd had been larger than the one at President Obama’s inauguration in 2008. In a series of experiments done not long...
Ahead of the midterm elections, exhaustive mainstream coverage from outlets including the New York Times cited polls and predictions claiming a “red wave” would beat out Democrats for control of key states and seats. Instead, Democrats came away with several wins,...
With Musk’s takeover of Twitter, the world’s wealthiest continue to build a concerning level of unaccountable control over technology and media. This anti-democratic power presents particular danger to traditionally marginalized groups, who use the platform to organize and criticize.
Clear-eyed coverage of the Republican party’s radicalization “never lasts,” according to Thomas Zimmer. Journalists instead publish uncritical coverage of extreme GOP perspectives, to serve an imagined ideal of “balance.”
The Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival (FLEFF) and the Park Center for Independent Media hosted a book launch for “The Social Media Debate: Unpacking the Social, Psychological, and Cultural Effects of Social Media,” a book that aims to examine questions...
