Toward a Better Internet
Could a civic-minded digital media emerge as a counterweight to the current platform-dominated internet, where algorithms help spread mis- and disinformation, echo chambers cabin our online interactions, and tech giants dominate over a wide range of economic and expressive activities?
This blog channel explores the possibility of building a better internet, one that facilitates public discourse, respects individual privacy, and fosters democratic processes.
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
TikTok’s Secret Sauce
TikTok’s algorithm is ordinary. Its real innovation is something else.
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
How To Train Your TikTok
Simple ways to better navigate the platform’s ocean of video content
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
A Digital Sphere that Serves Democracy
At 2022 Beaverbrook Lecture, Jameel Jaffer assesses watershed cases on regulation of social media
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Deep Dive: Toward a Better Internet
Discovery Logic: Making friends while finding gems
Curation, review, recommendation, discussion, and user identity characterize these social networks
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Quick Take: Toward a Better Internet
Institute Litigation Director Calls for Research into the “New Physics” of Public Discourse
Arcane algorithms must be brought to light to grapple with little-understood impacts on elections, media, and society
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Quick Take: Toward a Better Internet
On Panel, Institute Attorney Warns of Legal Obstacles to Public-Interest Research on Internet Platforms
Krishnan points to Knight Institute's “safe harbor” proposal and just-released policy paper
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Quick Take: Toward a Better Internet
When Social Media Regulation Meets the First Amendment
Knight Institute director, in Decoder podcast appearance, calls on courts to reject all-or-nothing First Amendment claims by states, social media companies
By A. Adam Glenn
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Spyware and the Press
A discussion about the threat that malicious surveillance technology poses to press freedom around the world
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Lawsuit
Dada v. NSO Group
A case challenging the use of spyware against journalists
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Quick Take
New “Lies” Essays Explore Investigative Deceptions, Conspiracy Theories, and Government Speech and Counterspeech
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Litigation
Amicus Brief
Moody v. NetChoice
Eleventh Circuit case challenging new law regulating social media platforms
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