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How Zeynep Tufekci Keeps Getting the Big Things Right – The New York Times
Ms. Tufekci, a computer programmer who became a sociologist, sounded an early alarm on the need for protective masks. It wasn’t the first time she was right about something big.
More than four years later, after Donald J. Trump won the 2016 election, Mr. Goff sent Ms. Tufekci a note saying she had been right.
At a time when everybody was being stupidly optimistic about the potential of the internet, she didnt buy the hype, he told me. She was very prescient in seeing that there would be a deeper rot to the role of data-driven politics in our world.
Ms. Tufekcis views on tech were not uncommon among the small group of sociologists focused on new technologies. But she d…
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