of flattening the curve, the importance of mask wearing, and academic articles covering the evidence for mask wearing. Tufekci was critical of the mainstream media for failing to explain the importance of mask wearing, and is often cited as one of the first to take up the importance of mask wearing in the mainstream media. This led to Tufekci becoming one of the academics who advised the WHO on adopting a mask recommendation. Tufekci has also written articles advocating for the importance of outdoor spaces, encouraging beaches and parks to stay open during the COVID-19 pandemic, calling for clearer ventilation guidelines to mitigate the airborne transmission of COVID-19, and also about advocating for a single-dose and/or delayed booster trial for the mRNA COVID-19 vaccines. In addition to her mainstream media writing during the COVID-19 pandemic, Tufekci has co-authored articles published in peer reviewed academic journals reviewing evidence that the SARS-CoV-2 virus is airborne. Her academic co-authors are interdisciplinary, and have included British medical professor, Trisha Greenhalgh, and environmental engineering professor, Linsey Marr. In an April 2021 "Head to Head" News and Views article in the British Medical Journal, accompanying a review, "Covid-19: What do we know about airborne transmission of SARS-CoV-2?", Tufekci and her co-authors argued against outdoor mask policy, and addressed how access to safer, ventilated, outdoor space is an equity issue. Also in 2020, Tufekci was interviewed as part of the WNYC-FM radio series On the Media. She criticized the mainstream media's over-reliance on opinion polling and psephology in advance of the 2020 United States elections, arguing flawed polling helped sway the public into voting for more harmful candidates, which forecast models did not take into account. She urged for more limited use of both. Tufekci was also interviewed on the BBC, WGBH, and Public Radio Exchange co-production The World. She stated that President Trump's refusal to concede the election to Joe Biden, along with his false claims of fraud sent signals, accelerated by social media and compounded by gerrymandering, that undermined the nation's democratic character in favor of bolstering authoritarianism and right-wing populism, and accelerating the democratic recession worldwide. Tufekci has given a series of TED talks on online social change, technology, the role of artificial intelligence and machine learning, and the role of social media and tech companies. Honors and awards 2005: International Communication Association, Top Eight Papers in Communication and Technology for "Digital Divide and