Recent Writing

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How to Fix Misinformation Without Censorship

History points us toward solutions. With Renee DiResta In WIRED

The Dark Psychology of Social Networks

‘Why it feels like everything is going haywire’ with Jonathan Haidt in The Atlantic

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How to Design Better Social Media

Four ways to help humanize our social tools. In QZ

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The Enemy In Our Feeds

This is How Your Fear and Outrage Are Being Sold For Profit. In QZ

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Empathy in the Age of Facebook

How we broke democracy (but not in the way you think). In QZ

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Our Hero & Heroine Addictions

The problem with stories in altruistic action