Age gates can be staggeringly counterproductive, pushing kids to darker corners of the web. Closing loopholes will only make things worse.

Age gates can be staggeringly counterproductive, pushing kids to darker corners of the web. Closing loopholes will only make things worse.

A deep dive on the democratic crisis unfolding following the digital purge of 130 million voters from the rolls in India by Tech Policy Press fellow Apar Gupta.

As revisions to voter rolls put more than 130 million people at risk of disenfranchisement, protesters have returned to the streets of Delhi

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Surveillance towers, increasingly powered by AI, promised faster responses to crossings. Our investigation of deaths near the towers found they are failing to deliver.

60 initial signatories – frontier AI labs, researchers, companies, governments, community organizations, and philanthropic organizations – will bring expertise and resources to the effort and invite o...

Starting in May 2025, the US government implemented an immigration policy that targeted noncitizen researchers for visa denials, visa revocations, detention, and deportation on the basis of the topics...

MAP-AI is actively seeking expressions of interest from actors across stakeholder groups shaping concrete AI policy proposals that address key human rights risks and opportunities associated with AI to participate in these Working Groups.

Exploring the real-world challenges of multilingual AI and how technology and policy can advance greater language equity.

AI systems do not work consistently and reliably across languages, as CDT has previously documented. Although companies, researchers, and civil society are working toward filling necessary technical a...

OpenAI’s pause shows the risks of rapid AI development, as safety frameworks fail to account for non-Western languages and contexts where harms are felt most.

Narratives about a “censorship-industrial complex” spread in right-wing circles for years; then they took hold of Washington. What—and who—is behind them?

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Federal officers can too easily comb through the most intimate details of your life.

Content from rap videos to protest photos is being removed in the name of “national security.”

India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.

India’s prime minister is famous for his savvy use of social media. Now he’s getting a wake-up call.

State department ‘takes full responsibility’ for erroneous, widely shared chart displayed at Aids conference in Brazil

The residents of Springfield, Ohio, have been terrorized by Donald Trump—and many now face the prospect of state-sponsored violence.

India's Cockroach Janta party accuses the Modi government of reneging on a deal to protect student protesters, threatening to resume demonstrations over exam system corruption.

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This report examines the gap between child safety policy proposals for social media and how teens and parents — the people these policies are meant to protect — experience and view them. While the top...

[ PDF Version ] Trust & Safety (T&S) teams in the tech industry are currently at a “build or buy” crossroads. Waning budgets and mass layoffs, increased regulatory requirements, and new AI-based tools...

A revenge account. A teenager's stolen reels. Behind both: an economy built on undressing Indian women without their consent.

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Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

Independent living is facing a threat from a less obvious source: tech tools often marketed explicitly as facilitating the ability of aging and disabled people to stay at home. The use and proliferation of these sorts of tools is being encouraged by the same administration that is openly hostile to the idea of independent living.

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

The KIDS Act, ostensibly aimed at protecting children, will raise the risk for journalists, dissidents, and whistleblowers.

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?

Klaudia Jaźwińska, Aliya Bhatia, and Yanick Kemayou come together to answer: What happens when a small collection of AI companies start colonising the truth?