The public now has the source code to track policy changes across time. The post Transparency Hub Is Now Open Source appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Advances in generative AI have dramatically lowered the barriers to creating and distributing sexual “deepfakes” or non-consensual intimate images (NCII) — a form of technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) that disproportionately targets women and marginalized populations. Yet as the technology enabling NCII scales, the online reporting systems meant to address it remain opaque, inconsistent, and burdensome […] The post WHITE PAPER: Mapping the Burden: Toward Survivor-Centered Reporting Systems and Policies for Non-Consensual Intimate Images appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Note: The views expressed are those of the student author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society or the Applied Social Media Lab. This blog post is not a peer‑reviewed academic publication, and the empirical estimates and interpretations presented here may change as validation and review proceed. […] The post Reading Between the Lines: How Platform Policies Construct Power appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

When RightsCon 2026 was suddenly cancelled last week, we were in the final stages of preparing two sessions: Who Checks Big Tech?, a roundtable co-hosted with Psst.org on our collaboration to build novel tools for whistleblowers; and Rules of Engagement, a tech demo of Transparency Hub, a platform that archives privacy policies from over 300 […] The post ASML’s RightsCon 2026 Update appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Frankly, ASML's video-based civic discourse platform, is at the center of a new initiative that has been awarded a grant aimed at exploring how AI can improve how we engage in dialogue and make decisions at scale. The post ASML’s Frankly Awarded Inaugural “Moonshot” Seed Grant appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Psst is a nonprofit dedicated to creating safer channels for collective whistleblowing. For 4 months in 2025, ASML partnered with Psst to develop novel whistleblowing technologies. We built two things: first, a set of prototypes for employment verification, to enable a whistleblower to prove that they work at a particular company without revealing personal information […] The post How ASML and Psst collaborated to reclaim identity from platforms  appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Join ASML as we explore the future of digital identity and celebrate the launch of KeyRing. The post Digital Identity Symposium: Towards User-Owned Identity appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

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The Linux Foundation sustains critical open-source infrastructure, from the Linux Kernel to decentralized identity standards. The Applied Social Media Lab participated in several discussions during the Foundation’s Summit Week in Napa, California, including the Summit on Human Agency (H2H), the Linux Foundation Member Summit, and a Linux Kernel maintainers workshop, engaging the builders and maintainers […] The post ASML presents at the Linux Foundation Summit Week appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

The First Person Project Summit is a global annual gathering bringing together builders and researchers to establish a global infrastructure for social verification, led by the First Person Project. At the 2026 First Person Project Summit in Seattle, the Applied Social Media Lab presented a live demonstration of the ASML Wallet to technologists, governance leaders, […] The post ASML presents at the 2026 First Person Project Summit appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

ASML’s Transparency Hub provides access to policy documents from hundreds of companies, giving users the ability to directly compare and track how policies change over time and understand how social media platforms use data. The post New Project Makes It Easier to Understand What’s Changing In the Fine Print of Your Favorite Apps appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

ASML partnered with Boston University's Spark! Program to develop a Policy Analytics Dashboard based on the Lab's Transparency Hub. The post Making the Fine Print Visible: Inside the Policy Analytics Dashboard focused on building transparency online appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

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Join ASML for the launch of Transparency Hub, a new platform designed to compare the data practices of consumer-facing social and technology applications. The post Making the Fine Print Visible: Introducing ASML’s Transparency Hub appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

BKC’s Applied Social Media Lab opened its doors to the public in December to learn more about the Lab’s ongoing work in public interest tech. The post Recapping ASML’s Fall 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

Join ASML on Thursday, December 4 for the 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase. The post 2025 Synthesizer & Open Showcase appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.

I’m happy to announce the release of the ActivityPub Fuzzer. The ActivityPub Fuzzer is a small program to help developers build social media software on the Fediverse with the ActivityPub protocol. It uses data collected by the Fediverse Schema Observatory to emulate known Fediverse software, solving the problem where developers have to manually test compatibility […] The post Introducing the ASML ActivityPub Fuzzer: Improving Testing in the Fediverse appeared first on Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard University.