Kevin Arceneaux
Professor of Political Science, Sciences Po
Research
We support actionable research on ethical and responsible uses of new digital technologies.
Accelerating Research
Project Liberty enhances ethical governance by supporting timely, actionable research on digital technology. Our founding partners - Sciences Po, Georgetown University and Stanford University - each receive grants to support the development of new scientific work conducted by their communities of world-class researchers.
Funded projects are selected and administered directly by university Steering Committees and retain full academic freedom. The selected projects will explore, in various ways, how technologies shape our social fabric and span social science, economics, policy and technology.
The first allocation of grants were announced in early 2022. As the projects are finalized, we work alongside Sciences Po, Georgetown University and Stanford University to make all research available for the public to access and leverage. Please browse the evidence-based findings and insights below.
Work We Support
From Viral to Verified: A Cross-Country Study on Misinformation Sharing and Flagging to Improve Policy Making
Promoting a Safe Use of AI by Fighting Against Cognitive Heuristics-Driven Misperceptions
How does ID verification on social media influence political and social behavior?
Interventions to Reduce Misinformation and Deepfakes
Analyzing Dynamics of Metaverse communities for the understanding of determinants of metaverse adoption
Can governments learn digital governance innovation from the civic tech community?
Developing a Scalable Virtual Reality Training and Evaluation Platform for Active Bystandership in Law Enforcement
Using Large-Scale Video, Text, and Legacy/Social Media Data to Understand and Reduce Polarization in Local Governance
Biomanipulation: The Looming Threat of the Social Media Frontier
Redesigning the Governance Stack: New Institutional Approaches to Information Economy Harms
The Effects of WhatsApp on Politics: A Multi-Country Deactivation Experiment
The Effects of Social Media on Overall Media Use, Misinformation Acceptance, Happiness, and Social Connectedness During a Presidential Campaign
Building a Realistic Research Platform for Open Science
Teaching Online News: Access to Digital Media, News Consumption and Political Knowledge – Evidence from a Randomized Experiment
Styles of Moderation: Meeting Users' Diverse Expectations and Practices for a More Decentralized Governance of Online Speech
Slowing disinformation on social media: digital literacy, fact checking and digital governance
Incentivizing Good Digital Governance: Toward a Healthier and More Ethical Online Public Sphere
Can speech govern itself? Regulating content on the Internet from below and from above
DeCodingDisInfo - Ideology and Institutions in the Diffusion of Disinformation in the Digital Era
AI-Political Machines: Do AI systems learn and leverage political opinions of users in recommendations?
Governance Problems in Decentralized Networks: The Case of Shareholder Activism through Digital Media
The Data Co-ops Project
Digital Data Institutes Cross-University Partnership
Scaling Secure Multiparty Computation for Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning
Using Big Data to Predict Forced Migration in the Era of Misinformation
Tech Foundations for Policymakers
Censorship Resistance as a Side-Effect
Motivating Correction
Towards a New Digital Rule of Law
The Role of Science and Politics in Sharing Misinformation: Towards Evidence-based Mechanisms to Curb the Diffusion of Misinformation
Steering Committees
The Sciences Po, Georgetown University and Stanford University Steering Committees ensure all partners and projects contribute toward the overall vision of Project Liberty. Their mission includes the selection and monitoring of projects, the appointment of dedicated liaison officers between the university and Project Liberty, as well as coordination with different internal and external networks to support the communication of the projects and partnership.
Michael Bailey
Walsh Professor, McCourt School of Public Policy and Department of Government, Georgetown University
Erik Brynjolfsson
Jerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow, HAI, Stanford University // Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, Stanford University
Maria Cancian
Dean of the McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Inga Chelyadina
Sciences Po - Project Liberty's Institute Liaison Officer
Michelle De Moy
Program Director, Tech and Public Policy Program, McCourt School of Public Policy, Georgetown University
Sergei Guriev
Provost and Professor of Economics, Sciences Po
Nathalie Jacquet
Head of Strategy and Development, Sciences Po
Nate Persily
James B. McClatchy Professor of Law, Stanford Law School
Rob Reich
Professor of Political Science & Director of the Center for Ethics in Society, Stanford
Marietje Schaake
International Policy Director at the Cyber Policy Center, Stanford University
Jen Schradie
Assistant Professor, Sciences Po
Lisa Singh
Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Georgetown University
Su Tellakat
Georgetown University – Project Liberty's Institute Liaison Officer
Braxton Woodham
McCourt Global, President of Amplica Labs