News and Event Highlights
News and Event Highlights
Researchers, policymakers, and AI experts at a Columbia SIPA convening warned that generative AI and social media advertising systems are accelerating online scams and called for stronger platform accountability and regulatory oversight.
Maria Ressa, CEO of Rappler, 2021 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, and Co-Chair of the UN Independent International Scientific Panel on AI accepts the Champion of Global Leadership Award from Annalena Baerbock, President of the UN General Assembly, on April 8, 2026.
The Institute of Global Politics (IGP) Technology & Democracy Initiative and the Columbia Journalism School convened a public discussion on the collapse of the information environment and the frameworks needed to restore transparency and trust online.
"Children deserve to be protected as robustly as possible—and that requires tools we can actually understand," writes Camille François, Assistant Professor of Practice at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
IGP and the Hewlett Foundation recently convened the Slop Salon, bringing together an interdisciplinary group of researchers, investigative journalists, technologists, and platform representatives to explore the boundaries and implications of AI slop.
Researcher Jen Weedon of IGP’s Tech and Democracy Initiative spoke on how families can navigate children’s online and offline safety challenges during a Rowan Center panel.
In March, a team of graduate students from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) advised by Jen Weedon visited Columbia Global Center Rio de Janeiro as part of their capstone project developed in partnership with Fundação BRAVA.
"The Panel will help the world separate fact from fakes, and science from slop," said UN Secretary-General António Guterres.
IGP's Technology & Democracy Initiative and IGP's Women's Initiative convened an expert panel to discuss how governments, multilateral institutions, and technology companies can take action to address online violence, abuse, and harassment.
A new study co-written by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa documents the systematic importation of the authoritarian playbook and how the 'Deconstruction Model' turned narrative warfare into kinetic reality.