If anything, social media is a counterweight to the ongoing devaluation of human lives. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Social media is enhancing human connectivity as people can converse in ways that were once not possible. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Twitter has made a huge, positive difference in my life, and changed the landscape of politics in multiple countries I studied, including… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Throngs on social media violate fundamental notions of fairness and due process: People may be targeted because of a misunderstanding or an… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In 2016, there was no sign that conservative pages did badly on Facebook. To the contrary, they were the pages that got… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Sometimes the social-media mob isn't just justified or understandable, but necessary because little else is available to protect the real victims. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
As long as Facebook and other social-media platforms make money by increasing engagement without much regard to the content they algorithmically amplify,… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
If you're on Facebook and you're trying to reach out, you really have to figure out how to feed and please its… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley engineers and employees may well be overwhelmingly liberal, but Facebook is run by the algorithms they program, which optimize for… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
If you have a tool like Twitter that gives everybody the ability to speak, but in 140 characters at a time, it's… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
For many people, tear gas is their first interaction with state violence. It's the first time they've been treated like an insect, usually by… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
It seems to me that states (and corporations) have become increasingly secretive and opaque, while people are increasingly exposed. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Social media is enhancing human connectivity as people can converse in ways that were once not possible. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In the Middle Ages, psychosis may have involved visions of the devil, snakes, or witches. In the 21st century, it can involve dressing in… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Very few of us consider strength-training as essential exercise, but it is. It is especially crucial as one ages, because a natural part of… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
That is the key strength of independent academia: we can speak up in spite of corporate or government interests. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
When people confidently announce that once robots come for our jobs, we'll find something else to do like we always did, they are drawing… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
In fact, commercial aviation is so safe because redundancy is mandated by regulation and built into every level, but our commercial-flying experience is so… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Condemnation campaigns can and do work, even in conditions where one thinks there are no morals left. — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
The first time I was teargassed, in Istanbul, Turkey, I thought I was going to die. Overwhelming pain flooded my eyes, nose, throat, and… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
Silicon Valley engineers and employees may well be overwhelmingly liberal, but Facebook is run by the algorithms they program, which optimize for the way… — Zeynep Tufekci Copy Share Image
