Argument: Taking Trump Down Has Exposed Social Media’s Inherent Contradictions

Dipayan Ghosh

Dipayan Ghosh is co-director of the Digital Platforms & Democracy Project and Shorenstein Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School. He was a technology and economic policy advisor for former President Barack Obama, and until recently worked on U.S. privacy and public policy issues at Facebook.

Articles by Dipayan Ghosh

The suspended Twitter account of U.S. President Donald Trump appears on a laptop screen in San Anselmo, California, on Jan. 8.

Taking Trump Down Has Exposed Social Media’s Inherent Contradictions

Argument

January 26, 2021, 2:39 PM

Facebook co-founder, Chairman, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg

For Facebook, It’s All About the Bottom Line

Argument

January 8, 2021, 1:45 PM

Pedestrians walk by Google's offices in downtown Manhattan on Oct. 20.

Why Action Against Google Is Not Enough

Argument

Dipayan Ghosh, Loully Saney

October 20, 2020, 5:51 PM

Voters cast ballots in the Michigan primary election in Detroit on March 10.

America’s Elections Are Under Threat—and Congress Is Being Bypassed

Argument

Loully Saney, Dipayan Ghosh

August 31, 2020, 2:36 PM

The new French self-attested movement document is displayed on a smartphone on April 6—the 21st day of a strict lockdown in France to stop the spread of COVID-19.

Privacy and the Pandemic: Time for a Digital Bill of Rights

Argument

Dipayan Ghosh, Adrien Abecassis, Jack Loveridge

April 20, 2020, 1:55 PM

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