For over a century, Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes’ metaphor of the “Marketplace of Ideas” has been central to Americans’ conceptualization of the First Amendment. However, the metaphor has evolved, and the today’s marketplace looks much different than the marketplace of...

This paper examines personal financial disclosure practices required for public officials across the 50 states and finds that more than 80 percent of states rate poorly when evaluated on a set of objective criteria. A “disclosure degree” score is calculated for each state; these scores are...

As part of our participation in the December 2014 meeting of the Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology, Journalist's Resource at Harvard's Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy authored recommendations to help the principal federal statistical agencies communicate better...

Knight Foundation’s historic $50 million investments in 2019, aimed at accelerating a new field of research at the intersection of technology and democracy, have shown encouraging early signs. This report examines progress among the major research institutions that were funded, considers how...

Social media companies have increasingly been using labeling strategies to identify, highlight, and mark content that may be problematic in some way but not sufficiently violating to justify removing it. Such labeling strategies, which are now being used by most major social platforms, present a...

In its broadest form, net neutrality allows for the free flow to end users of competing applications, content, and data across the networked infrastructure that constitutes the Internet. Its opposite, generally speaking, is a form of network management wherein certain kinds of sites,...