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2026-02-12 [el] Media Grok Is Now Editing Itself [Columbia Journalism Review]
2026-01-14 [el] Panel Wikipedia at 25: Authority, Legitimacy, and the Future of Knowledge [Wiki Education Foundation]
2025-12-28 [el] Publication (academic) The block log: 20 years of content moderation on Wikipedia [New Media & Society] (preprint)
2025-12-03 Conference The Future of Internet Research Workshop Recap [Oxford Internet Institute]
2025-12-01 [el] Conference Language Disparities in Moderation Workforce Allocation by Social Media Platforms (with Manuel Tonneau, Diyi Liu, Kevin Zheng, Ralph Schroeder, Ethan Zuckerman, and Scott Hale) [PlatGovNet 2025]
2025-11-20 [el] Media The difference between Grokipedia and Wikipedia [Marketplace Tech]
2025-11-06 [el] Media Wikipedia is facing attacks from the White House and Musk. Its founder isn't worried [Morning Edition]
2025-11-03 [el] Publication (popular press) With Grokipedia, Top-Down Control of Knowledge Is New Again [Tech Policy Press]
2025-10-27 [el] Media Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia [New York Times]
2025-10-24 Conference WikiConference North America 2025 Recap: Gun, Community, Leadership, Permission
2025-10-22 [el] Media Why Editing Wikipedia Is Becoming More Dangerous [Slate] (archive)
2025-10-21 [el] Publication (academic) The Ethics of Accidental Vlogs (with Harshita Snehi) [M/C Journal]
2025-08-27 [el] Publication (preprint) Language Disparities in Moderation Workforce Allocation by Social Media Platforms (with Manuel Tonneau, Diyi Liu, Kevin Zheng, Ralph Schroeder, Ethan Zuckerman, & Scott Hale) [preprint/pending]
2025-08-13 [el] Publication (academic) One Platform, Four Languages: Comparing English, Spanish, Hindi, and Russian YouTube (with Kevin Zheng & Ethan Zuckerman) [Social Media & Society]
2025-08-12 [el] Publication (popular press) How language is hiding the real internet from you [BBC] (then Globe & Mail/La Presse)
2025-06-20 [el] Media Deep in the shadowlands: Check out YouTube's best-kept secrets [Hindustan Times] (archive, pdf)
2025-06-20 [el] Media Bans, partner programmes, baby sharks: A look at YouTube by the numbers [Hindustan Times] (archive, pdf)
2025-05-23 Conference WikiWorkshop 2025 Recap
2025-05-14 [el] Publication (popular press) What Attacks on Wikipedia Reveal about Free Expression [Tech Policy Press]
2025-05-01 [el] Media YouTube turns 20; and the interesting side of boredom [Future Tense / ABC] (ABC website, Spotify, Apple)
2025-04-24 [el] Media The Hidden Side of YouTube [Moncrieff / Newstalk] (Newstalk website, Spotify, Apple)
2025-04 Media Il Mondo Sommerso [La Repubblica] (art, article)
2025-03-07 [el] Media The hidden world beneath the shadows of YouTube's algorithm [BBC]
2025-03-04 [el] Media Elon Musk Also Has a Problem with Wikipedia [New Yorker]
2025-02-13 [el] Media How a computer that 'drunk dials' videos is exposing YouTube's secrets [BBC] (then TechSpot, UserMag, GigaZine, PCGuia...)
2025-01-31 Media Flappy Bird, Malware, and the TikTok Ban ("For sale: An iPhone with TikTok installed, $50,000") [BBC]
2025-01-30 [el] Publication (popular press) AI Companies Threaten Independent Social Media Research (with Ethan Zuckerman & Kevin Zheng) [Tech Policy Press]
2025-01-25 [el] Conference Local editing to stay with the trouble ("mini-keynote") [Wikipedia Day NYC]
2025-01-09 Blog post! Compassionate Network Erosion and the Broken Place
2024-01-08 Blog post! 2025: Portable Ideas, Back-to-Basics Social Media, Follow Everywhere (or, New Website, Who Dis?)
2024-10-10 [bf] Conference Trolls, Pixsies, and Poka-Yokes [WikiCon]
2024-09-23 [bf] Conference Languages of YouTube and TubeStats [IC2S2]
2024-06-27 [bf] Publication (popular press) AI Companies Training on YouTube Is a Privacy Risk (with Ethan Zuckerman) [The Conversation]
2024-06-24 [bf] Media ‘Does anybody question the NAACP?’: The ADL head thinks Wikipedia is biased. Is he right? [The Forward]
2024-05-21 [bf][el] Publication (academic) Here Be Livestreams - Maps of Reddit (with Virginia Partridge, Jasmine Mangat, Rebecca Curran, & Ethan Zuckerman) [WebSci]
2024-03-13 [bf][el] Publication (academic) Media Attention to Trump on Truth Social vs. Twitter (with Yini Zhang, Josephine Lukito, & Jiyoun Suk) [JITP]
2024-02-27 [bf][el] Media Here’s how much a YouTube newspaper would weigh, Justice Alito [Washington Post]
2024-01-31 [bf][el] Media 97. There are 14 billion videos on YouTube. Mr. Beast, we hereby challenge you to watch them all. [Reimagining the Internet]
2024-01-26 [bf][el] Publication (popular press) What We Discovered on 'Deep YouTube' [The Atlantic]
2024-01-05 [bf][el] Media The Secret Size of Youtube [Bufferhead]
2023-12-20 [bf][el] Publication (academic) Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube (with Kevin Zheng, Rebecca Curran, Jason Baumgartner, and Ethan Zuckerman) [JQD:DM]
2023-12-12 [bf][el] Publication (report) News in the First Month of the Israel-Hamas Conflict [Media Cloud]
2023-11-11 [bf] Conference The Block Log: Content Moderation on the English Wikipedia [WikiCon]
2023-06-15 [bf][el] Conference Truth Social, Twitter, Trump, and Notes from ICA 2023 [MEAG]
2023-06-08 [bf][el] Media Who Builds The Internet? Meet Wikipedia's Architects [Byline]
2022-12-02 [bf][el] Media The Huge Fight Behind Those Pop-Up Fundraising Banners on Wikipedia [Slate]
2022-10-26 [bf][el] Blog post YouTube Autocaptions and Studying Social Media Sites that Don't Want to be Studied [MEAG]
2022-08-11 [bf][el] Media How a False Claim About Wikipedia Sparked a Right-Wing Media Frenzy [Slate]
2022-07-30 [bf][el] Media What is a recession? Wikipedia can't decide [NPR/All Things Considered]
2022-03-09 [bf][el] Publication (report) The Conversation About GMOs in 2021 [MEAG/Media Cloud]
2022-01-01 [bf][el] Publication (academic?) Wikipedia [Springer Encyclopedia of Big Data] [first wrote this in 2014 (!); publication delayed so updated in 2017 and published online; published in print without revision in 2022]
2021-04-08 [bf][el] Media ADL may have violated Wikipedia rules — editing its own entries [The Forward]
2021-03-30 [bf][el] Invited talk Wikipedia @ 20: Reflections on Past, Present & Future [Media Education Lab @ URI]
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