Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina and a contributing opinion writer. She is an expert on social media and its use, in particular in the Muslim world. She is from Turkey.
In this article, published Thursday, March 31 in The New York Times, Tufekci discusses how social media is impacting the current election season, through the lens of her Turkish upbringing and experience.