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Searching for Accountability: Contested Harms, Algorithm Audits, and the Governance of Sociotechnical Systems

Mar 5, 2026, 11:10 am - Emma Lurie untangles the roots of online harms in platform design, regulatory structures, and expert ...
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Bellwether Lecture: Michaela Mahlberg

Feb 11, 2026, 12:10 pm - Michaela Mahlberg a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use ...
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Bellwether Lectures Bellwether Lectures

Michaela Mahlberg a corpus linguist who studies language as a social phenomenon and the ways we use language to understand and shape our world.
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Investigation of Alleged Rental Price-Fixing via “Algorithmic Collusion” on RealPage and Other Revenue Management Software

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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Reducing Bias in Large Language Models

The Master of Information Management and Systems (MIMS) program educates information professionals to provide leadership for an information-driven world. The Master of Information and Data Science ...
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UC Berkeley Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy

The Executive Fellowship in Applied Technology Policy is a groundbreaking partnership between UC Berkeley’s School of Information and the Goldman School of Public Policy. This prestigious eight-month ...
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Hany Farid: How Disinformation is Dividing the Nation

Technology and the internet have had a remarkable impact on our lives and society. Many educational, entertaining, and inspiring things have emerged from the past two decades in innovation. At the ...
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A Restorative Justice Approach to Social Media Moderation

The internet was built on the idea of free-flowing information and open discourse. In reality, though, online tools are used as weapons to harass, hurt, and demean others, stifling voices and ...
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Prof. Hany Farid Reflects on “Minion Gore” Videos

People are using the popular AI video generator Runway to make real videos of murder look like they came from one of the animated Minions movies and upload them to social media platforms where they ...
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Bay Area Slang: Geoff Nunberg Explores the Origins of "Hella"

How is it that “hella” became synonymous with the Bay? Many Bay Area residents and Californians believe that hella — and its G-rated equivalent “hecka” — are Bay Area slang. The words, which mean ...
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Professor Hany Farid’s GetReal Security Aims to Provide Advanced Content Authentication and Deepfake Detection

Late last month, Hany Farid, a professor at the School of Information, unveiled his newest venture: GetReal Security (formerly GetReal Labs). The company is a joint effort between Farid, a trusted ...
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White House Issues New Directive on AI and National Security

Today, the Biden-Harris Administration released the first-ever National Security Memorandum (NSM) on artificial intelligence and the accompanying Framework to Advance AI Governance and Risk Management ...