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Save the Data: The Georgetown Community Unites to Preserve Public Information
By: Sara Bach, Spring 2025 MDI Communications Assistant On February 13th, more than 60 volunteers, including students, faculty, and researchers, gathered in the Georgetown Ethics…
June 7, 2025
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Bridging the Online Gender Gap: Rebecca MacKinnon and the Fight for Gender Equity on Wikipedia
Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …
May 6, 2025
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Labeling Election-Related Communications on Social Media: Navigating “easy” and “hard” Labels
By: Thessalia Merivaki, Ph.D., Associate Teaching and Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy, and Jorge Bris Moreno ’25, MDI Scholar Researchers analyzing social…
May 5, 2025
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Editing for Equity: Georgetown University’s Second Wikipedia Edit-a-thon Aims to Increase Representation and Close the Gender Gap Online
Participants from the 2nd Annual Georgetown Wikipedia Edit-a. …
April 25, 2025
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TrueMedia finds new home at Georgetown’s McCourt School
McCourt School of Public Policy researchers will continue developing the AI platform to detect deepfakes and false information, furthering Georgetown University’s commitment to…
April 17, 2025
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Formal Response — MDI’s Comment on the Development of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Plan
The Massive Data Institute (MDI) at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University offer the following comments in response to Office of Science and Technology…
April 17, 2025
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MDI Impact Brief — Resolving the Tension between Privacy and Generative AI
Generative AI tools and applications are advancing at an astonishing rate. From generating code, email, and music to supporting decision making, generative AI is becoming common…
April 14, 2025
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Who Decides What You See? How Middleware Can Reshape Social Media
By: Renée DiResta, Associate Research Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy For as long social media has existed, there have been debates about content moderation and…
April 10, 2025
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Event — MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025
On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, the Massive Data Institute of the McCourt School of Public Policy will host the MDI Scholars Research Showcase Spring 2025. MDI Scholars will…
April 1, 2025
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Tech & Society Week 2025 — AI Hazards: Understanding AI Incidents
On Monday, March 17, 2025 from 3:00 to 4:00pm in Fisher Colloquium in Hariri Building on the Hilltop Campus, we will be hosting a panel discussion on AI incidents during Tech ;…
March 12, 2025