Updated 08/11/21: The team behind the 2019-20 Magic Grant Trump Town have made a pivot, and are focusing on state and local governments and their responses to COVID-19. Derek Kravitz and his team have received thousands of pages of emails in response to a large number of very targeted FOIA requests. In these emails we
AuthorJuan Saldarriaga
Mapping Data Flows – Zoom Edition
Video conferencing app Zoom has surged in popularity due to the coronavirus pandemic, prompting the questions: what data can the company collect about our conversations, and what could they do with it? Those questions were answered by the researchers behind Mapping Data Flows — John Batelle, Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor at Columbia’s School
Casting the Vote – An American Dinner Party
As part of the Hacking Voter Suppression 2018-2019 Magic Grant, Columbia Journalism School Professor June Cross and Charlotte Braithwaite, a Theater Director and Assistant Professor of Music and Theater Arts at MIT, will host Casting the Vote, An American Dinner Party. The event will take place on April 11, 12 & 13 at the MIT