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Our director’s transition to Cornell University and how it will affect CivilServant.

We tested Facebook’s ad screeners and some were too strict. The platform mistook a disabled veterans fundraiser for a political ad.

Our live blog of a talk by Janet Vertesi, on what it means to have a principled rejection of technology.

Choosing the right statistical model can affect the life and well-being of millions or even billions of people.

Hello there, Max Klein here. It’s my great honor to start work at CivilServant, and do the hard work of finding evidence on how to create a more understanding internet.

Anyone can test the effect of tech design changes in our lives. By combining what we learn, we can discover systemic effects.

Hello! My name is Julia Kamin, and it is with great excitement and gratitude that I introduce myself in this blog post as CivilServant’s new Research Manager.

An agenda for citizen behavioral science to maintain and protect the communities we love online.

Human causes of problems are hard to distinguish from technical ones. Simple experiments can sometimes untangle them.

Banishing downvotes may not have the substantial benefits or disastrous outcomes that people expect.