Popular Writing
Various Original Essays
Ethically Sourced Image Data Set Encourages Fairness in AI Research | Nature, November 2025
What Should Open Source AI Mean? | Red Hat Research Quarterly, Summer 2025
Some Trouble with the AI Book Critic: How a Summer Reading List Highlighted the Tensions Between Institutional Legitimacy and Technological Shortcuts | Stanford University Press Blog, May 2025
Memo to Trump: Create Sensible AI Policies That Focus on Real — Not Speculative — Concerns | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 2025
Trust the AI Scientist? What Machine Learning Can — and Cannot — Teach Us About Sex Differences in the Brain | Fairer Disputations, September 2024 (with Megan Levis)
AI Misinformation Detectors Can’t Save Us From Tyranny — At Least Not Yet | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, September 2024
cDc: An Anecdote From the History of Disinformation | Hack_Curio, August 2024
One Question: What Can People Do to Combat Disinformation in the 2024
Election Season? | The Progressive, June / July 2024
Alt Text: A Brief History of the Textfile, and the Production of Conspiracy
Theories on the Internet | History News Network, May 2024
Transcending Obsolescence: On Marshall McLuhan's Catholic Globe | Athwart, April 2024
The Strange History — and Even Stranger Future — of Digital Deception | Next Big Idea Club, December 2023
Unlocking Digital Doors: On the Hacker Group That Told Congress They Could Take Down the Internet, | Literary Hub, December 2023
The Human in AI: Competitor to Us, or Extension of Us | Comment, August 2023
Meme Warfare: AI Countermeasures to Disinformation Should Focus on Popular, not Perfect, Fakes | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May 2021 (with Michael Yankoski and Tim Weninger)
How to Make AI Less Racist | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, August 2020
A Pandemic of Bad Science | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, July 2020
An AI Early Warning System to Monitor Online
Disinformation, Stop Violence, and Protect Elections | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, February 2020 (with Michael Yankoski and Tim Weninger)
Reviews of My Work
A History of Fake Things on the Internet | Technology and Culture, July 2025 (Finn Brunton)
Memes as Modern Myths | H-Net
Reviews in the Humanities and Social Sciences, March 2025 (Hadil Abuhmaid)
Disinformation or Shared Search for Meaning? | Discourse, September 2024 (Jacob Bruggeman)
A History of Fake Things on the Internet | Internet Histories, April 2024 (Alexander O. Smith)
Internet Imagination Running Amok | The Bulwark, January 2024 (Alec Dent)
Im Chat mit Trump | Süddeutsche Zeitung, January 2024 (Michael Moorstedt)
Mythmaking Online and Marshall McLuhan | Catholic Herald UK, January 2024 (Nick Ripatrazone)
Yes, People Lie Online. But it May Matter Less Than We Fear | The Washington Post, December 2023 (Becca Rothfeld)
What the Doomsayers Get Wrong About Deepfakes | The New Yorker, November 2023 (Daniel Immerwahr)