With “the crown jewel” of civil rights legislation gutted by the U.S. Supreme Court, and possibly the seats of 20 Black members of Congress at stake in November, voting rights advocates on Wednesday c...

Both online and offline, we are seeing the dangerous adoption of a “race-neutral” approach to consequential decisions, writes Dhanaraj Thakur.

Trump sees an opening with voters old enough to remember Soviet-era nuclear drills and spy dramas.

Karolina Mackiewicz is IDDP's Policy Fellow.

In a 6-3 vote, Supreme Court justices axed a 2024 voting map from Louisiana that created a new majority-Black congressional district.

Experiments across the world have tried to remove politicians themselves from decision-making. And they’ve worked—well, kind of.

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We should treat large social and AI systems like critical infrastructure and adopt "building codes" for them, write David A. Broniatowski and Joseph Simons.

We report results from simultaneous experiments conducted in late 2022 in Belarus, Estonia, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine. The experiments focus on fact-checking misinformation supportive of Russia in the Russia-Ukraine War. Meta-analysis makes clear that fact-checking misinformation reduces belief …

This handbook offers an accessible, easy to use entry point for grappling with the question of how to define AI in a legal context.

A conversation with George Washington University Law School scholar Spencer Overton about his forthcoming paper, "Ethnonationalism by Algorithm."

Political and legal scholars said college students continue to face systemic barriers to voting during a book talk at the School of Media & Public Affairs on Wednesday.

Chatbots can measurably sway voters’ choices, new research shows. The findings raise urgent questions about AI’s role in future elections

Whether or not political leaders pay a price for spreading misinformation has profound implications for democracy. In this paper, we identify the conditions under which corrections of misinformation c...

Balancing the needs of social media researchers with perspectives of high profile figures.

The Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics and The New Republic hosted The State of Democracy in Trump's America: Year One. The event featured a keynote address from Congressman Ro Khanna and a panel discussion with Harvard University's Ryan Enos, the University of Chicago's Susan Stokes, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Eugene Robinson, and moderated by Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic.

As co-directors, Bailard and Porter aim to strengthen IDDP’s role in supporting informed public dialogue.

Researchers increasingly require data from social media companies to better understand the information environment, technology product design, & social issues.

IDDP’s mission is to help the public, journalists, and policymakers understand digital media’s influence on public dialogue and opinion.