Latest Past Events

Are Troll Armies Killing Free Speech?

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York

In his essay for the Knight Institute's Emerging Threats series, Columbia Law School's Tim Wu observes that some of the forces undermining contemporary political discourse — such as “troll armies,” “flooding,” and propaganda robots — may be beyond the reach of traditional free speech protections. In a conversation co-hosted by the Knight Institute and the Brown Institute at Columbia Journalism School,

Reboot: Informing the Electorate

Brown Institute at Columbia 2950 Broadway, New York

Reboot Democracy brings together innovators in the technological and political spheres, helps them connect with each other, and supports their development of tools that will revolutionize our democratic system. This month we’re teaming up with Harmony Labs and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation for our next event focused on Informing the Electorate. Teams will

Richard Gingras: Trust, Media, and the Evolution of Democracy

Packard 101, Stanford University 350 Serra Mall, Stanford

The Brown Institute for Media Innovation at Stanford University welcomes our second Media Innovator Series Speaker for 2017-2018, Vice-President of News at Google, Richard Gingras, in a talk entitled "Trust, Media, and the Evolution of Democracy." What new tools can tech companies develop to “signal” to readers that content has been appropriately vetted? How is