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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 AI Companies Threaten Independent Social Media Research [Tech Policy Press]
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 AI Companies Training on YouTube Is a Privacy Risk [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 Here Be Livestreams - Maps of Reddit [WebSci]
2024-03-13 [bf][el] Publication Media Attention to Trump on Truth Social vs. Twitter [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 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 Dialing for Videos: A Random Sample of YouTube [JQD:DM]
2023-12-12 [bf][el] Research 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] Research 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] Research The Conversation About GMOs in 2021 [MEAG/Media Cloud]
2022-01-01 [bf][el] Publication (?) 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]
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