Zeynep Tufekci

Read Affiliate Joe Bak-Coleman's contribution to the UN Human Development Report 2025, with advisory input from Faculty Associate Arvind Narayanan and alums J. Nathan Matias and…

BKC Affiliate Joseph Bak-Coleman, BKC Director James Mickens, and BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci write to advocate for an intergovernmental panel to synthesize the evidence…

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about technical debt, the problem at the heart of Southwest’s flight cancellation fiasco.

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about conversational AI ChatGPT’s role in an evolving society.  “As Plato was wrong to fear the written word as the enemy, we…

BKC Faculty Associate Zeynep Tufekci writes about disinformation and "prevent[ing] another Alex Jones." “It has become so easy to lucratively lie to so many people, and we…

Zeynep Tufekci joins WBUR

Zeynep Tufekci on why everyone should stop 'doomscrolling'

evelyn douek and Zeynep Tufekci are cited by The New York Times

Zeynep Tufecki discusses college COVID-19 apps in an op-ed for The Atlantic.

Zeyenp Tufecki featured in The New York Times

Zeynep Tufekci says that’s not what they’re for

America’s coronavirus response failed because we didn’t understand the complexity of the problem.

Zeynep Tufekci says to rebuild trust in the internet, we need to entirely restructure how it operates.

To help manage the shortage, the authorities sent a message that made them untrustworthy.

Getting ready for the possibility of major disruptions is not only smart; it’s also our civic duty

China’s use of surveillance and censorship makes it harder for Xi Jinping to know what’s going on in his own country.

Don’t blame shadowy foreign hackers for the chaos in Iowa. Blame Shadow’s caucus app, says faculty associate Zeynep Tufekci.

Zeynep Tufekci calls for devices with fewer distractions

Humans aren't incorrigibly or universally selfish, but we've built plenty of institutions that do act that way.

While are benefits of “smart” technology, they also afford companies significant control over the devices.

It's not just bad storytelling—it’s because the storytelling style changed from sociological to psychological

What should you watch? What should you read? What's news? What's trending? Wherever you go online, companies have come up with very particular, imperfect ways of answering these…

Thanks to “data inference” technology, companies know more about you than you disclose.

Outsiders have always had a weakness for paranoid fantasies. Now our leaders are conspiracists, too.

How do we expand the benefits of machine learning, while protecting privacy?

Anything “public” on social media may be fair game, but researchers should be more ethical about using that data

Assessing the integrity, safety, and security of the vote -- the most important element of a truly democratic government

Fakery is gushing in from everywhere and we’re drowning in it.

The few companies that control our digital public sphere—Facebook, Google, and Twitter—are all driven by the same fundamental business model, and it has only grown more pernicious…

Foreign meddling is to our politics what a fever is to tuberculosis: a mere symptom of a deeper problem.

To understand how digital technologies went from instruments for spreading democracy to weapons for attacking it, you have to look beyond the technologies themselves.