Writing

Reports, articles, and frameworks with his name on them. For coverage of the work by others, see press mentions.

Nov 2025

Better Access: Data for the Common Good

Knight-Georgetown Institute/report

Co-authored with Nathaniel Persily, Laura Edelson, Brandon Silverman, Rebekah Tromble, Alex Abdo, Leticia Bode, Mark Scott and others. Defines four categories of high-influence public platform data and sets a baseline framework for independent researcher access. Featured in the Tech Policy Press series "Seeing the Digital Sphere."

Jan 2025

Submission to Ofcom on researcher access to information from regulated online servicesunverified

Knight-Georgetown Institute/report

Contributor. Filed January 17, 2025.

Aug 2024

Public Data Access Programs: A First Look

Mozilla Foundation & NCoC/report

Joint research with the Mozilla Foundation — the first systematic evaluation of 19 major platforms' data access programs, scored against 47 criteria across five categories.

Oct 2018

Information Disorder

Information Disorder Lab, Shorenstein Center/report

A taxonomy of junk news — fabricated, clickbait, hyperpartisan, misleading, satire, plagiarism — plus a twelve-signal framework for identifying junk pages. Presented at the Petrie-Flom Center, Harvard Law School.