December 4, 2024
Post-Truth, Fake News and Democracy: Mapping the Politics of Falsehood
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Johan Farkas to discuss the current state of fake news online.
RSM hosts a wide range of public convenings and workshops aimed at highlighting new and innovative research across academia, civil society, industry, and beyond.
Learn more about what’s coming up and revisit our past events below.
December 4, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Johan Farkas to discuss the current state of fake news online.
November 20, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Nieman Fellow Jesselyn Cook and Berkman Klein Center-Nieman Fellow Ben Reininga for a discussion with Jonathan Zittrain on the spread and impact of conspiracy theories online.
November 14, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Bill Adair to discuss his new book, Beyond the Big Lie: The Epidemic of Political Lying, Why Republicans Do It More, and How It Could Burn Down Our Democracy.
October 30, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Visiting Scholar Marshall Van Alstyne to present research on market interventions to combat misinformation.
October 23, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Mary Anne Franks to discuss her new book, Fearless Speech: Breaking Free from the First Amendment.
October 9, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes former Visiting Scholar Joe Walther and current BKC Fellow Sahana Udupa to discuss the recent edited volume, Social Processes of Online Hate.
September 25, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Sasha Issenberg to discuss his new book The Lie Detectives: In Search of a Playbook for Winning Elections in the Disinformation Age.
August 5, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Prof. Lawrence Lessig and Claudia Chwalisz for a conversation with Manon Revel on the future of democracy in the 21st century.
July 9, 2024
The Applied Social Media Lab welcomes Project Fellow Adesola Sanusi to present her approach to addressing online harassment of journalists.
June 6, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media invites students, scholars, and designers to apply for this hybrid workshop exploring new ways to build a safer internet, organized by RSM alum Elissa Redmiles, along with Allison McDonald and Lucy Qin, and featuring a slate of experts.
May 8, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Carl T. Bergstrom for a talk exploring social medias impact on the scale of human communication and our mechanisms for creating collective understanding.
May 2, 2024
Join us for a one-day workshop examining what the right to information should look like in relation to platforms and how it can be implemented in a manner that protects user privacy.
April 24, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Amanda Yarnell and Kate Speer for a conversation with Visiting Scholar Jeff Hall about the Center for Health Communications efforts to improve the quality of public health information circulating online.
April 12, 2024
Join us for a conversation moderated by Visiting Scholar Anupam Chander, featuring Jennifer Huddleston, Ramya Krishnan, Jenna Leventoff, and Alan Rozenshtein.
April 3, 2024
This workshop will bring together professionals within the field of Trust & Safety (T&S) to discuss socio-technical issues that disproportionately affect the Majority World.
April 2, 2024
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media welcomes Anne Neuberger, U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Cyber and Emerging Technologies, for a conversation on cybersecurity, AI, and other emerging technologies with Faculty Director Jonathan Zittrain.