Selected Press / Multimedia

I have been interviewed and quoted in media and my research received press coverage nationally and internationally, including in the Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Reuters, TIME Magazine, NBC News, Le Monde, The Guardian, Forbes, Bloomberg News, Huffington Post, Politico, Slate, Motherboard, The Hill, The Globe and Mail, Toronto Star, CBC News, Global News, The Daily Mail, The Index on Censorship, Der Freitag, Il Fatto Quotidiano, The Times of India, Indian Express, Jerusalem Post, as well as coverage by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald in The Intercept.

Selected Media / Press Coverage

2022

Kiernan Green, “LinkedIn experiment changed job prospects for millions — and it raises red flags: privacy experts”, CBC News, October 23, 2022

Benjamin Powers, “The ACLU and the NSA may soon square off in the Supreme Court — over Wikipedia”, The Grid, September 27, 2022

2021

Ryan Gallagher, “Swiss Firm Executive Operates Secret Surveillance Operation, Sources Say”, Bloomberg News, December 6, 2021

Joe Uchill, “Hacking laws are a round hole for machine learning’s square peg”, SCMagazine, August 4, 2021

Heidi Boghosian, “How Fear of Government Surveillance Influences Our Behavior”, Literary Hub, July 15, 2021

Andrea Daniele Signorelli, “La super sorveglianza ci rende sempre più conformisti. E non è una buona notizia”, WIRED (Italy), June 21, 2021

Ronald K. Collins, First Amendment News, The Fire.Org, June 16, 2021

Daphne Keller, “Empirical Evidence of Over-Removal By Internet Companies Under Intermediary Liability Laws“, Stanford Center For Internet and Society Blog, Stanford Law School, February 8, 2021

Ryan Gallagher, “Silicon Valley Investment Firm Profits From Surveillance States“, Bloomberg News, January 27, 2021

2020

Carolyn E. Schmitt, “Cyberlaw Clinic weighs in on warrantless device searches at the US border”, Harvard Law Today, August 27, 2020

Peter Jacobs, Hannah Pugh, and Jasmine Wang, “A 21st Century Update to Digital Copyright Law”, The Regulatory Review, University of Pennsylvania, August 1, 2020

Khari Johnson, “Researchers warn court ruling could have a chilling effect on adversarial machine learning” ,Venture Beat, July 2, 2020

2019

Daniel Hoffman, “Europe’s disinformation plague now a threat to U.S. media health”, Washington Times, October 10, 2019

Patrick Cain, “Bots have small role in federal campaign so far, study finds”, Global News, October 4, 2019

The Canadian Press, “Les images de Trudeau maquillé pourraient servir à désinformer avant le vote”, La Presse, October 3, 2019

The Canadian Press, “Fake Justin Trudeau Blackface Photos Are Circulating Online: Researchers”, Huffington Post (Canada), October 3, 2019

Emma McIntosh, “Public interest in Trudeau brownface scandal faded after a few days, report finds”, National Observer, October 3, 2019

News, “Trudeau blackface photos vulnerable to exploitation, disinformation, U.S. study says”, Global News October 3, 2019

News, “Risk Trudeau blackface photos could be exploited ahead of vote: U.S. study”, National Post, October 3, 2019

Stephanie Levitz, “Risk Trudeau blackface photos could be exploited ahead of vote: U.S. study”, CTV News, October 3, 2019

Andrea Gunn, “Cyber meddling expected in federal election: report”, The Chronicle Herald, April 8, 2019

2018

Lily Newman “The ACLU’s Biggest Roadblock to Fighting Mass Surveillance”, WIRED Magazine, June 29, 2018

Matthew Braga, Nahlah Ayed, Dave Seglins, Julian Sher, Michelle Gagnon, “To censor the internet, 10 countries use Canadian filtering technology, researchers say“, CBC News, April 25, 2018

2017

A.J. Marsden and William Nesbitt, “I Spy with My Little Eye: The Origins and Effects of Mass Surveillance” Psychology Today, November 6, 2017

Tilman Bayer, “The chilling effect of surveillance on Wikipedia readers, and other recent research” in Wikipedia Research Newsletter, Vol 7:4, July 24 2017

Peggy Sastre, “Sur Internet, les femmes et les jeunes s’autocensurent le plus”, Slate France, July 16, 2017

News, “Women and young people are hurt the most by internet surveillance — and it’s getting worse”, Technocracy, July 8, 2017

Global Voices Advocacy, “In ‘State of Emergency,’ Internet Shutdowns Leave Ethiopians, Venezuelans Struggling to Connect”, Netizen Report, June 1, 2017

Jonathan Shaw, “The Watchers: Assaults on Privacy in America”, Harvard Magazine, January-February, 2017

Cynthia Wong, “The Dangers of Surveillance in the Age of Populism”, Newsweek, February 2, 2017

2016

George Bowden, “Nine Important Stories of the Year That Slipped Under the Radar”, Huffington Post (United Kingdom), December 27, 2016

Henry Peck, “Speech Restrictions Cannot Be Wordplay”, Human Rights Watch (Dispatches Blog), October 26, 2016

James Bradshaw, “Turkey’s Erdogan uses FaceTime, social media to thwart military coup”, Globe and Mail, July 26, 2016

John Naughton, “Google, not GCHQ, is the truly chilling spy network”, The Guardian, June 18, 2017

Janus Kopfstein, “Lack of Online Privacy Has Chilling Effect, U.S. Department of Commerce Says”, Motherboard VICE, May 14, 2016

Brady Dale, “Humans Are the Best Sensors—Pairing Flickr With the News”, New York Observer, May 6, 2016

Annika Kremer, “Studie beweist Selbstzensur durch Überwachung”, Der Freitag (Germany), May 6, 2016

Tim Cushing, “The Chilling Effect Of Mass Surveillance Quantified”, Techdirt, May 2, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations”, The Daily Mail (United Kingdom), May 1, 2016

News, “Study: Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations”, Jerusalem Post, May 1, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged”, The Nation (Pakistan), May 1, 2016

News, “People Too Afraid To Search Privacy-Sensitive Topics After Snowden Revelations— Oxford Study”, Russia Today, May 1, 2016

Joshua Kopstein, “Snowden’s Leaks Made People Less Likely to Read About Surveillance”, Motherboard, April 30, 2016

Yael Grauer, “Traffic to Wikipedia Entries Related To Terrorism Plummeted In Light of NSA Spying”, Forbes, April 29, 2016

Le Monde, “Traffic Après les révélations Snowden, moins de visites sur les pages Wikipédia sensibles”, Le Monde (Pixels) (France), April 29, 2016

Amaelle Guiton, “Web : de la surveillance de masse à l’autocensure”, Libération (France), April 29, 2016

Nieuws, “Als de staat meeluistert zijn burgers minder vrij”, Joop VARA (Netherlands), April 29, 2016

Glenn Greenwald, “New Study Shows Mass Surveillance Breeds Meekness, Fear, and Self-Censorship”, The Intercept, April 28, 2016

Marius Jorgenrud , “Færre leser om terror på Wikipedia etter Snowden-avsløringene, Digi No (Norway), April 28, 2016

“Traffic to Wiki Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Leaks”, Hindustan Times (India), April 28, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations, study finds”, Reuters Africa, April 28, 2016

News, “Denúncias de Snowden fizeram cair tráfego de páginas sobre terrorismo na Wikipedia, entenda”, Tudo Celular (Brazil), April 28, 2016

Giulio Cupini and Fabio Scalet, “Privacy, lo spionaggio ci rende più ignoranti”, Il Fatto Quotidiano (Italy), April 28, 2016

Tim Starks, “Morning Cyber-Security Report”, Politico, April 28, 2016

News, “Internet Users Avoid Searching for ‘Terrorism’ on Web After Snowden Leak”, Sputnik News (Russia), April 28, 2016

Torsten Kleinz, “Studie zu Chilling Effects: Wikipedia-Artikel zu Terrorismus werden weniger gelesen”, Heise Online (Germany), April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations, Study Finds”, Eyewitness News (South Africa), April 27, 2016

Esti Utami, “Setelah Pengakuan Snowden Pengakses Info Terorisme Menurun”, Suara News (Indonesia), April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia traffic to terrorism entries plunge after Snowden revelations, study finds”, Gulf Daily News (Bahrain), April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia traffic to terrorism entries plunge after Snowden revelations, study finds”, The Peninsula (Qatar), April 27, 2016

News, “Traficul către paginile de Wikipedia dedicate terorismului a scăzut semnificativ după dezvăluirile lui Snowden (studiu)”, Agerpres (Romania), April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations, Study Finds”, The Express Tribune (Pakistan), April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations”, Free Malaysia Today, April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations, Study Finds”, Standard Media (Kenya), April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia Pages on Terror See Traffic Plunge Post Snowden Leaks”, The Times of India, April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations: Reports”, Indian Express, April 27, 2016

News, “Security Revelations See Fall in Web Traffic – Study”, Otago Daily (New Zealand), April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia traffic to terrorism entries plunge after Snowden revelations, study finds”, Business Insider, April 27, 2016

J. Nate Matias, “The Effects of Surveillance and Copyright Law on Speech: Jon Penney at Berkman”, MIT Center for Civic Media (Blog), Massachusetts Institute of Technology, April 27, 2016

Cory Bennett, “Snowden revelations had chilling effect on web browsing”, The Hill, April 27, 2016

Rudy Takala, “Study: Snowden leaks have made web users paranoid about what they browse”, Washington Examiner, April 27, 2016

Andrew Blake, “NSA surveillance has had a chilling effect on Internet browsing: report”, Washington Times, April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia traffic to terrorism entries plunge after Snowden revelations, study finds”, ABC News (Australia), April 27, 2016

NBC News Report, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations”, NBC News, April 27, 2016

News, “Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Traffic Fell After Snowden NSA Reveal”, Newsweek Magazine, April 27, 2016

News, “Traffic to Wikipedia Terrorism Entries Plunged After Snowden Revelations, Study Finds”, The New York Times, April 27, 2016

Joseph Menn, “Traffic to Wikipedia terrorism entries plunged after Snowden revelations, study finds”, Reuters (International), April 27, 2016

Jeff Guo, “New Study: Snowden’s disclosers about NSA spying had a scary effect on free speech”, Washington Post, April 27, 2016

2015

Quoted in: Robin Levinson King, “FCC met with Canadian researcher to understand CRTC”, The Toronto Star, February 26, 2015

Quoted in: Rebecca Lau, “Internet users receive illegal downloading notices, but what do they mean?”, Global News, February 24, 2015

Quoted in Robin Levinson King, “Canadian viewers will get to see U.S. ads during 2017 Super Bowl”, The Toronto Star, January 29, 2015

Quoted in Sam Frizell, “Here’s What Facebook Can Do With Your Personal Data in the Name of Science” TIME Magazine (July 7, 2014)

Quoted in Elections Bill Exacerbates Lack of Privacy, Political Parties Micro Target Voters”, The Hill Times, April 7 2014

Misc Talks

CITP Luncheon Speaker: Chilling Effects: How Laws and Surveillance Impact Us Online, Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP), April 2018

“Identifying and Reducing the Negative Side Effects of Automated Legal Enforcement Online” Civil Servant Community Research Summit, MIT Media Lab, January 2018

“Chilling Effects”: Insights on How Laws and Surveillance Impact People Online” Luncheon Speaker Series, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, April 27, 2016

“Internet Censorship and the Remembrance of Infowars Past” Luncheon Speaker Series, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society, Harvard University, February 26, 2013

Other Multimedia

Radio Interview (with host Dan Jones), “The Chilling Effect”, Radio Berkman 237, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University, May 18, 2016