We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance. By working with academia, industry, and the public, we hope to promote and create healthier online ecosystems.

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September 27, 2023

RSM Fall Speaker Series

This fall, we're welcoming an exciting group of authors, social scientists, industry practitioners, legal academics, and computer scientists for a weekly speaker series on social media topics.

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September 1, 2023

TikTok’s U.S. Future Still in Limbo as Commerce Secretary Visits China

A recent New York Times article on the future of TikTok in the United States quotes Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander, who warns that a ban on the platform could spark a “digital trade war” between the U.S. and China.

August 9, 2023

Measuring Social Media Impacts on Mental Health

Assembly Fellow Nate Lubin joins the TechSequences podcast to discuss his research on methods that could help mitigate societal harms caused by social media.

August 4, 2023

ChatGPT for Social Work Science: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities

Assembly Fellow Siva Mathiyazhagan and coauthors explore opportunities to use ChatGPT in social work and call for the development of a comprehensive ethical framework for using LLMs in research.

July 17, 2023

A.I. Microdirectives Could Soon Be Used for Law Enforcement

Visiting Scholar Jon Penney and BKC affiliate Bruce Schneier outline the ease with which AI could be used to issue legal microdirectives, but caution that such usage could render the law inscrutable over time.

July 13, 2023

The Future of Online Speech Shouldn’t Belong to One Trump-Appointed Judge in Louisiana

Writing in the New York Times, Visiting Scholar Kate Klonick expresses concern over allowing “ideologically lopsided courts in far-flung federal jurisdictions” to dictate national Internet policy.

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October 11, 2023

Gianluca Stringhini on Mitigating Malicious Activity Online (RSM Speaker Series)

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Gianluca Stringhini for a talk on the use of computational methods to mitigate malicious activity online.

September 21, 2023

Now & Next: Platform Accountability and Content Governance

This two-day convening will bring together a cross-disciplinary group of thought leaders and practitioners for a critical discussion about the adequacy and impact of the Oversight Board and other platform accountability models.

August 15, 2023

Minus: Radically Finite Social Media and Alternative Futures

Assembly Fellow Ben Grosser shares insights from his analysis of Minus, a finite social media platform he built to demonstrate a different kind of social media.

August 8, 2023

Not Just Semantics:
Learning from Definitions in Technology Policy Proposals

Assembly Fellow Marissa Gerchick explains the state of affairs that motivated term tabs, her Assembly Fellowship project that aggregates and makes searchable important terms in proposed and enacted federal tech legislation.