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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April 7, 2022

Announcing the Institute for Rebooting Social Media’s 2022-23 Visiting Scholars

Scholars will be in residence developing research into social media and the prospects for interventions to improve it.

Community

April 25, 2022

Understanding Chilling Effects

Jon Penney blends legal and privacy theory with social theory to propose a new understanding of chilling effects in this award winning article.

April 6, 2022

Telegram’s Embrace of Contradiction

Will Marks and David Nemer assess Telegram’s content moderation.

March 27, 2022

Second-Wave Content Moderation

evelyn douek discusses the dominant mental model of content moderation as “an analog of the offline justice system” and unpacks its drawbacks:

March 20, 2022

Facebook’s Faces

Chinmayi Arun explores the different organizational stakeholders within Facebook and how they can contribute to oversight decisions.

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April 6, 2022

Telegram’s Embrace of Contradiction

Will Marks and David Nemer assess Telegram's content moderation.

May 10, 2022

The Tower and the Park: Structural Misalignments of Social Media

Join us for a special Berkman Klein Center Luncheon featuring RSM Strategy Advisor, Joanne Cheung, who will discuss her research and open access article, “Real Estate Politik: Democracy and the Financialization of Social Networks.”