Zeynep Tufekci: commitment

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…Hello, everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Conversations with Tyler. I’m going to introduce Zeynep, but actually, I’m not completely sure of the fully correct pronunciation of her last name. Zeynep, would you please say your name for us correctly? I will, but I have to let you know there’s no ground truth, so you can just make it up, and there would be nobody who knew what it was supposed to be. You could have gotten away with whatever you wanted it to be, but it is ZAY-nep too-FEK-chee. Thank you very much. Zeynep is starting as a professor at Columbia University in a new job. She is the author of the renowned Twitter and Tear Gas: The Power and Fragility of Networked Protest, a highly influential book. Over the course of the last two years, she has become one of the central American public intellectuals on the issue of COVID-19, having been right about virtually everything ahead of all the curves, correcting the public health authorities when they were wrong, confirming them when they were right. And she knows many, many other things as well. Zeynep, welcome to Conversations with Tyler.…

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