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Ethan Zuckerman

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As seen in: Reimagining the Internet, Apple Podcasts, CNN, Medium, MSN, MSN Canada, The New York Times, The Guardian, Yahoo Canada, Yahoo News New Zealand, MIT News and
Covers:  Technology, particularly internet platforms, social media and cooperative movements.Sometimes urbanization and climate resilience.
Doesn't Cover: Cryptocurrencies.
UMass Amherst, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Previously MIT, Geekcorps, Tripod. No longer posting here. See @ethanz@social.coop, @ethanz.bsky.social

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Ethan Zuckerman’s Biography

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Associate professor of Public Policy, Information and Communication at University of Massachusetts Amherst. Director of the UMass Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure. Host, Reimagining the Internet podcast. Columnist, Prospect (UK). Faculty Associate, Berkman Klein Center, Harvard University. Formerly MIT Media Lab,

Ethan Zuckerman’s Journalist Portfolio

When AI thinks you're dead

When AI thinks you're dead

Artificial intelligence is prone to hallucinate plausible but inaccurate information. When you're on the rece…

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The Internet's Original Sin

The Internet's Original Sin

It's not too late to ditch the ad-based business model and build a better web.

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Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago

Hey, Facebook, I Made a Metaverse 27 Years Ago

It was terrible then, and it's terrible now.

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Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world?

Can Russia really disconnect from the rest of the digital world?

Putin wants to create a splinternet that would see his citizens' access to the global internet restricted

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August/September 2026

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By Marie Le Conte Verified, Alona Ferber, Ethan Zuckerman
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Young Britons are locked out of housing and jobs and crushed by the cost of living. Marie Le Conte argues that it’s time they were given back their future. Elsewhere, Alona Ferber visits Israel ahead of key elections and Jen Stout reports from Ukraine
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Trump’s Anthropic spat has made the case for AI sovereignty

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By Ethan Zuckerman
| Prospect Magazine Verified
For the major US AI companies today, there are two big risks. The first is getting on Donald Trump’s bad side. The second, strangely, is having people believe your own hype. Take Anthropic, creator of the popular AI chatbot and coding tool Claude. The company was launched in 2021 by dissidents from OpenAI as a more safety-focused and socially responsible alternative to the chatbot pioneer.
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Angine de Poitrine: the alien rock band playing for Team Human

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By Ethan Zuckerman
| Prospect Magazine Verified
Earlier this year, a YouTube video began to make the rounds of social media and music blogs. It features two figures in black and white polkadots that extend from their clothing to cover their hands and feet, wearing giant, vaguely humanoid papier-mâché masks, and with one sporting an enormous trapezoid hat. They play precise and strange music with a drum kit and a double-necked guitar. As the groove pivots from one time signature to another, the oddness of the melody becomes increasingly apparent.
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