Sep 28, 2024

Professor Joe Walther has been named a faculty associate at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. The Center, within the Harvard Law School, attracts scholars and practitioners from around the world to advance discovery and promote remedies to the problems and promise of the internet, social media, and the infusion of AI into civic and personal life. The Center is known for its Cyberlaw Clinic, its invention of open access publication licensing, its connections to major technology corporations, and its ongoing concerns over media governance, privacy, cybersecurity, ethics, and disinformation. Professor Walther’s work with the Center relates to his research into online hate messaging – social media posts that denigrate people based on racism, religion, sexual orientation, misogyny, xenophobia, and other characteristics. Accordingly, the Berkman Klein Center includes his efforts in their working groups on Justice, Equity, & Inclusion, as well as Media, Democracy, & Public Discourse. See https://cyber.harvard.edu/people/joseph-b-walther