Zeynep Tufekci is an academic and writer who focuses on big social challenges that defy disciplinary boundaries and simple answers. She is the author of Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest and writes regularly for The Atlantic and the New York Times, as well as publishing a newsletter named Insight.
“Long before she became perhaps the only good amateur epidemiologist, she had quietly made a habit of being right on the big things.” — Ben Smith in the New York Times
A Few Selected Articles From and Interviews With Zeynep
We Need to Talk About Ventilation
![Illusrative photo of fans blowing foggy air in a subway station.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/zeynep.me/images/articles/ventilation.jpg)
This Overlooked Variable Is the Key to the Pandemic
![Illustrative photo of a large crowd of masked and evenly-distributed people.](https://cdn.statically.io/img/zeynep.me/images/articles/overlooked.jpg)
Why Telling People They Don’t Need Masks Backfired
![Illustrative photo of a discarded mask on the ground](https://cdn.statically.io/img/zeynep.me/images/articles/backfired.jpg)
5 Pandemic Mistakes We Keep Repeating
![Illustrative photo collage of President Trump at a White House press conference, a vaccine vial, and a pained-looking Dr. Anthony Fauci](https://cdn.statically.io/img/zeynep.me/images/articles/five-things.jpg)
Ten scientific reasons in support of airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2
An evidence review of face masks against COVID-19
The Remarkable Value of Thinking Broadly: A COVID-19 Trifecta
Zeynep Tufekci On Systems Thinking
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