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At CAT Lab, data visualizations and data art build intuition and encourage us to look at online communities from new perspectives.

The metaphor of online communities that “have become toxic” or that are “being polluted” in different ways is a common […]

How can we continue designing online safety policies for a digital world that doesn’t exist, one where every child has […]

In the spring of 2024, the California Nurses Association picketed outside Kaiser San Francisco Medical center to draw attention to […]

What is the human cost of encrypted communications? At the 2025 Trust and Safety Research Conference at Stanford University, one […]

Amid growing public demands for greater accountability from technology companies, the public has turned to scientists to be arbiters of […]

How do officials determine the policies that govern technology? Who is in the room when policy is developed? Whose experiences are considered?

Moderators of online communities, often volunteers, work hard to protect their communities from harassment, misinformation, trolls, and other online harms. But which policies and procedures actually work?

When leaders of a large immigrant church in Boston stood in front of their congregation on January 26, they noticed […]

Participatory/community/citizen science has transformed how scientists think about discovery, re-orienting the scientific endeavor toward collaboration with the people of the […]