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Select Publications
Disinformation
Why Iranian protesters are embracing Anonymous
DFRLab . October 2022
Five big questions as America votes: Disinformation
Atlantic Council . September 2020
What the Natanz explosion signaled to Iran’s disinformation apparatus
DFRLab . July 2020
Social Media Analysis: How an Iranian Kurdish Woman's Death Triggered a Regional Social Media Conflict
Global Voices Advocacy . June 2015
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Can AI Create Culturally Conscious Stories?
IVOW . July 2018
Where Collective Human Rights Meet Artificial Intelligence
Medium . July 2018
Harmful Speech Online
State-aligned trolling in Iran and the double-edged affordances of Instagram
Journal of New Media and Society . January 2019
Verification as a Remedy for Harmful Speech Online
Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society . August 2017
Online Sexual Harassment in the Eyes of Iranian Internet Users
Baaroo Foundation . April 2016
Defamation in the Age of Internet [un]Governance
Article19 . October 2014
Public Speaking
Attributing Digital Covert Action: The Curious Case of WikiSaudiLeaks
CYBERWARCON
November 2021
Iran's Decade of Soft War: Dissidents, Trolls, and Khamenei
CYBERWARCON
November 2018
Select Media
The Hijab Will Never Be The Same
Click Here Podcast
October 2022
The Goal of Iran’s Fake 'Proud Boys' Emails Was Chaos
VICE
October 2020
List of 2020 election meddlers includes Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and North Korea
Cyberscoop
August 2020
Freedom of Information and the Control over Hearts and Minds in Iran
Huffington Post
Can Authoritarians Take Jokes? Humor as a Tool for Political Resistance
MIT Media Lab . Online Humor Conversation Series
Gender-based Violence and Harassment Online
BBC Persian . 100 Women Series
Mecca and the Media
Al Jazeera . Listening Post
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