Recorded March 29, 2023.

In the 2023 Martin Lecture in Public Policy, celebrated scholar and writer Zeynep Tufekci examined how technology, science and society interact, in a discussion moderated by Professor Peter Loewen, director of the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. Professor Tufekci has become arguably the most impactful analyst on the pandemic. The New York Times’ Ben Smith says, “Tufekci has made a habit of being right on the big things.”

Zeynep Tufekci is a columnist with The New York Times and has written for The Atlantic, Wired, Scientific American and other publications. She was a 2022 Pulitzer Prize finalist for her insightful columns on the pandemic and American culture in The New York Times and The Atlantic. She is the inaugural director of the Craig Newmark Center for Journalism Ethics and Security. Her book Twitter and Tear Gas was published by Yale University Press.

This event was sponsored by the Faculty of Arts & Science, University of Toronto and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy.