Technology & Democracy

We explore ways to reduce harms associated with social media, artificial intelligence, online gaming, and 3D immersive platforms.

Politics and public life in the United States and certain other democracies around the world have taken a turn toward extreme polarization, with distrust of democratic institutions on the rise. We examine how major technology companies are exacerbating these problems by facilitating the creation and distribution of harmful online content. We focus on social media, artificial intelligence, gaming, and 3D immersive platforms. In all instances, we pair our analysis with practical recommendations for how industry and government can better regulate digital products and services in the interest of protecting democracy.

 

Addressing 3D Immersive Technology
Immersive technologies powering the "metaverse" pose serious threats to consumer privacy and safety.
Combating Extremism in Online Gaming
Online gaming companies, which boast more than three billion consumers globally, have been slow to counteract the exploitation of their sites by violent extremists and other bad actors.
Regulating Social Media
In the absence of adequate tech industry self-regulation, government needs to extend more systematic oversight of companies like Meta, Google, TikTok, and X.
Safeguarding AI
Digital products built with generative artificial intelligence hold great promise but also can facilitate fraud, disinformation campaigns, and cyberattacks.
Supreme Court Advocacy
We file friend-of-the-court (amicus) briefs in leading U.S. Supreme Court cases that bear on the effects of technology on democracy.

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Amicus Brief
NetChoice Amicus Brief

In this brief, the Center urged the Supreme Court not to grant the social media industry full immunity from regulation, while also arguing that content moderation laws in Florida and Texas violate the First Amendment.

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