About Us

GW Law has received grants from New America’s Public Interest Technology program to advance the public good in digital technology.

Ethical Tech@GW is an interdisciplinary collaboration where law meets computer science and engineering, media and public affairs, and social entrepreneurship. This initiative aims to examine the values that digital technologies implicitly embody and reflect, and the values that they should be built or redesigned to support. Through the initiative, we bring in guest technologists and other experts to interact with faculty and students, lecture and participate in expert roundtables on issues such as access to justice for marginalized communities, reproductive data privacy post-Dobbs, social media manipulation through mis/disinformation, and the values implicit in algorithmic decision making. We have launched a research project with colleagues from the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the School of Media and Public Affairs on the efficacy of a variety of methods for combatting mis/disinformation. Student researchers from GW Law and other graduate-level programs are deeply engaged in this interdisciplinary work by organizing expert roundtables, studying and analyzing fact checking and labeling of mis/disinformation communications on social media, and studying algorithmic fairness and bias issues.

More description of the project is presented by Ms. Kristen Mitchell of GWToday.