🚨New KGI report! The creation of a Technical Committee is key to implementing US v. Google search remedies and promoting competition, but it must be carefully designed with strong expertise and monitoring. Our new blueprint outlines what’s needed: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
2025 was a big year for KGI! Our first full year in operation, we helped inform policy on algorithmic feed design, data access & competition enforcement in the search market.
🎟️ 16 events
📖 25+ publications
🌎 Engaging our network across 40+ countries.
Read more 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
📣 Join our team! KGI is seeking an Operations Associate to provide operational support for budgeting, people processes, events, and internal + external comms. This position is hybrid and must be based in Washington, D.C. Apply by April 6, 2026: kgi.georgetown.edu/operations-a...
🚨 Starting now! Join us for our event "Designing for Democracy: Social Media Feeds in a Hyper-Polarized World," where we will explore the relationship between algorithmic feed design and social and political polarization.
Livestream is available here: www.youtube.com/live/8cTeXE6...
This week’s verdicts against Meta and YouTube in landmark social media trials in the US underscore the real harms users link to social media design and highlight the need for these companies to overhaul design choices that prioritize engagement over safety 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/news/verdict...
Are social media feeds making us more polarized – or is the story more complicated? Join us this Thursday (10-11:30am ET) at Georgetown's Tech & Society Week 2026 as we unpack what the evidence actually says about algorithms & polarization. In person + livestream 👉 kgi.georgetown.edu/events/desig...
We’re hiring! KGI is seeking an Operations Associate to provide operational support for budgeting, people processes, events, and internal + external comms. This position is hybrid and must be based in Washington, D.C. Apply by April 6, 2026: kgi.georgetown.edu/operations-a...
Missed our amazing Digital Competition Conference? Check out the recap with highlight video, plus links to recordings and slides for all the talks.
📣 Happening tomorrow! KGI's @leticiabode.bsky.social & @pfchap.bsky.social will speak about our Better Access framework for @gesis.org's "Show & Tell – Social Media Data in Research Practice" series.
March 20, 2026 | 2pm CET (9am ET)
Register here: events.gwdg.de/event/1260/
🚀 Digital Competition Conference 2026: This year's DCC connected leading researchers, policymakers, businesses, litigators & civil society from 37 countries, linking cutting-edge research with real-world enforcement on key digital markets challenges. Recap here: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
New York’s rules may provide the first real test in the US of whether age assurance mandates can be implemented in ways that are effective, accessible, and privacy-preserving.
Read our full submission here: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
➡️ Ensure certification reports are complete + publicly available for independent verification.
➡️ Support zero-knowledge proofs for more privacy-preserving age assurance once widely supported by mobile operating systems.
➡️ Clarify privacy, security + parental consent requirements
KGI submitted comments to the New York Office of the Attorney General recommending ways to make its proposed rules more technically sound and privacy-preserving, including:
➡️ Move circumvention detection from a quantitative metric to a qualitative certification standard.
The SAFE for Kids Act, a law which requires social media companies to restrict algorithmically personalized “addictive” feeds and nighttime notifications for users under 18 unless parental consent is provided, tasked the office with developing these rules.
As governments globally consider age assurance requirements, the New York Office of the Attorney general has been first out of the gate in the US in proposing rules for implementing an age assurance requirement: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
Recent controversies surrounding age verification on major platforms – from Discord delaying its age verification rollout to Reddit facing fines in the UK for children's privacy failures – highlight the challenges of adopting age assurance systems in ways that protect user privacy and experiences. 🧵
It’s hard for the public to grasp the complexity of implementing online age assurance effectively, so I was happy to help break it down for Fast Company’s Mark Sullivan. Nice call-out included for the need for independent verification of age assurance systems. www.fastcompany.com/91504593/ope...
How do social media algorithms shape social and political polarization? Join KGI at Georgetown's Tech & Society Week for “Designing for Democracy: Social Media Feeds in a Hyper-Polarized World.”
📆 Mar 26, 10-11:30AM ET
📍Georgetown Capitol Campus + livestream
🎟️ kgi.georgetown.edu/events/desig...
🚨 Today is the final day to apply for our Student Research Assistant (Summer 2026) who will join a new project examining AI and the future of content markets. kgi.georgetown.edu/student-rese...
It can feel like those with the power to address Google's monopoly in search, and particularly its grip on search distribution, are passing up their opportunities to do so. First was the US District Court in US v. Google, and now comes the UK CMA. Read on for KGI's analysis of the CMA's proposals.
We provide evidence-backed recommendations for how the UK can improve the effectiveness of the proposed conduct requirements by strengthening definitions, scope, and implementation guidance across its proposed Publisher and User Choice conduct requirements. Read 👇
kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
In our public comment, we explain that without confronting Google’s control over default distribution and sharpening its publisher and user choice rules, the CMA's proposed conduct requirements risk preserving the very market power they are meant to constrain.
The UK’s competition regulator has built solid evidence of Google's market power in search. But its proposed interventions are not poised to address it. See KGI's public comment to the UK's CMA on its proposed conduct requirements for Google search 👇 🧵
Join us Wednesday at 12pm ET for our final OSoMe Awesome Speaker talk!
🎙️ Alissa Cooper (Knight-Georgetown Institute)
📌 Better Feeds: Algorithms That Put People First
🗓 March 4 | 12pm ET
🔗 Register: iu.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
We're hiring! KGI is hiring for a Student Research Assistant (Summer 2026) to join a new project examining AI and the future of content markets. Applications due by March 6, 2026. Learn more and apply here: kgi.georgetown.edu/student-rese...
📆 10-12 weeks (Summer 2026)|📍 Hybrid / Washington, D.C.
As courts and the public examine how Meta responds to risks impacting minors, rigorous, metrics-driven evaluation of mitigation effectiveness is essential.
Read the report: kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and...
➡️ Meta’s internal projections accurately predicted that 99% of teens would not opt in to optional "take a break" features.
➡️ In 2023, Meta found that Instagram's "Accounts You Might Follow" product feature recommended adult groomers to nearly 2 million minors in 3 months.
We find a consistent gap between companies’ public safety claims and the data they collect internally on effectiveness.
Some key findings:
➡️ Safety tools like screentime limits and “take a break” reminders are used by less than 2% of minors.
