Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Most online speech is hosted on algorithmic platforms that are designed to optimize for engagement. But algorithms are not neutral. They amplify some speech and suppress others. Some effects are positive. Others exert a pervasive distorting effect on everything.
This blog channel features posts related to the Institute’s research project, Algorithmic Amplification and Society, which seeks to identify gaps in existing understandings of algorithmic distortion, as well as uncover and explain the true principles that govern the movements of online speech.
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Deep Dive: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Generative AI companies must publish transparency reports
The debate about AI harms is happening in a data vacuum.
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Quick Take: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Introducing Visualizing Virality
Illustrating and investigating virality and demotion on Twitter
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Institute Update: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Knight Institute Symposium on “Algorithmic Amplification” to Feature Leading Scholars and Technologists
Public event to be held on April 28-29, 2023, at Columbia University and online
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Deep Dive: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
TikTok’s Secret Sauce
TikTok’s algorithm is ordinary. Its real innovation is something else.
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Deep Dive: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
How To Train Your TikTok
Simple ways to better navigate the platform’s ocean of video content
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Institute Update: Algorithmic Amplification and Society
Call for Participation: Optimizing for What? Algorithmic Amplification and Society
The Knight Institute invites submissions for its spring symposium, April 27-28, 2023, at Columbia University
By Arvind Narayanan & Katy Glenn Bass
Podcast
Podcast
"Views on First: Speech & the Border"
At the frontiers of censorship and surveillance
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Institute Update
A Note About the Knight Institute, X, and Bluesky
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Research
Essay Series
Permission to Speak Freely? Managing Government Employee Speech in a Democracy
A project exploring the law and politics of public employee speech
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Essays and Scholarship
Silenced by Surveillance: The Impacts of Digital Transnational Repression on Journalists, Human Rights Defenders, and Dissidents in Exile
Findings from interviews with over 80 people living in the diaspora or in exile
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