Editor's note: The Democracy Dialogues event has been rescheduled for April 18. Future details will be shared on the Hub. Today's world may appear to be a golden era for free speech, where anyone can ...

Zeynep Tufekci is an associate professor at University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, at the School of Information and Library Science. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Ecstatic, ...

Zeynep Tufekci is a contributing opinion writer for The New York Times, writing about the Internet, technology, politics and society. She is also an assistant professor at the University of North ...

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These days, all it takes to start a protest is a cell phone, says professor Zeynep Tufekci. But does the ease of social media impede social movements from making big gains? "Today's protests have ...

Zeynep Tufekci tried to tell us. She tried to tell us in November 2012, just after Barack Obama beat out Mitt Romney for a second term as president of the United States. Obama's win was credited in ...

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Since 2008, partisan distrust of presidential election results has been substantial. In 2016, only 43 percent of Democrats believed that the election was free and fair; now, only 30 percent of ...

With so much data collected on our online behavior, it's bound to be misused. Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci says to rebuild trust in the internet, we... Zeynep Tufekci: How Do We Build Systems Of Trust ...

Why is it so easy to burn through an hour on YouTube or Facebook? Sociologist Zeynep Tufekci explains how advertisting algorithms have turned our... Zeynep Tufekci: How Is Our Attention Packaged And ...