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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] |
| Pre-2021 | Email me | |
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2026-02-21
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