The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.
The Stanford Internet Observatory is a cross-disciplinary program of research, teaching and policy engagement for the study of abuse in current information technologies, with a focus on social media.
The Stanford Social Media Lab works on understanding psychological and interpersonal processes in social media. The team specializes in using computational linguistics and behavioral experiments to understand how the words we use can reveal psychological and social dynamics, such as deception and trust, emotional dynamics, and relationships.
The Program on Democracy and the Internet seeks to promote research, convenings, and courses that engage with the challenges new technologies pose to democracy in the digital age.
The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.
The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.
As we close out 2025, the Tech Impact and Policy (TIP) Center at Stanford University is proud to reflect on a year of groundbreaking research and impactful events. Here are some of the year’s key highlights:
The Tech Impact and Policy Center is proud to celebrate Dr. Angela Lee, who successfully defended her doctoral dissertation, “Beyond the Digital Town Square: Identifying and Correcting Social Media Distortion Effects,” this week. At the core of Angela’s doctoral research is an exploration of the ways we talk about social media’s role in society—especially through metaphors like the "digital town square," and how different framings influence well-being and perceptions of overall social cohesion.
Daphne Keller and Joan Barata of Stanford’s PPR discuss the European Union’s Disinformation Code of Practice and its transition, on July 1, from voluntary framework co-authored by Big Tech, to legally binding obligation under the Digital Services Act (DSA) on the Lawfare Daily Podcast.
The Consortium is a collaborative effort uniting academic researchers, industry professionals and nonprofit leaders with the aim of tackling some of the most pressing challenges in online safety.
Dr. Ryan Moore successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on using short educational videos to improve older adults’ digital literacy and resilience to online deception at scale.
Leading researchers, practitioners, and policy experts to explore the current landscape of AI audits and chart a path forward during a closed-door conference in Spain this June.
Even with respect to empathy, a seemingly human-specific trait, chatbots tend to outperform their human doctor counterparts. But there's more to the story.
At a recent lunch seminar at CPC, Amy Zegart discussed emerging technologies and their impact on geopolitics, focusing on aspects of U.S. foreign policy
The Stanford Cyber Policy Center and the Paris Bar Association hosted a round table discussion on "AI and the Future of Democracy: Challenges and Opportunities," at the Maison du Barreau in Paris
