Engineering and Policy Development

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is thrilled to announce its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Scholars. These seven visiting faculty members will use their time with the Institute to investigate urgent social media problems and propose mitigations for harmful online phenomena.

Alum Elissa Redmiles coauthors this study on how social platforms can improve intimate content sharing through proactive protective measures.

Applications are open for ASML's Whistleblowing Infrastructure Workshop, a one-day program to imagine new technology for supporting whistleblowers.

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media (RSM) welcomes applications for its 2024-2025 cohort of Visiting Scholars. This interdisciplinary cohort will undertake original projects while engaging with RSM faculty, staff, scholars, fellows, students, and the broader Berkman Klein Center (BKC) and Harvard University communities and projects.

Alum Elissa Redmiles and her team have launched safedigitalintimacy.org, a resource for tech platforms and policy makers to prevent image-based sexual abuse online.

Employee Fellow Nadah Feteih outlines some of the ways AI models perpetuate stereotypes, and how those mistakes can lead to real-life harm to marginalized communities.

Project Liberty and The Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University announced today that Frank McCourt and the 501(c)(3) non-profit Project Liberty will support the launch of BKC’s Applied Social Media Lab (ASML) – a first-of-its-kind program to assess and build social media technology in the public interest.

Employee Fellow Nadah Feteih and alum Elodie Vialle co-author this article on Tech Policy Press urging platforms to collaborate more closely with marginalized communities in order to effectively address online harms.

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.

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.