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Areeq Chowdhury

Twitter: @AreeqChowdhury
Areeq Chowdhury is the founder and director of WebRoots Democracy. Areeq was born and brought up in Manchester and studied Economics and Political Science at the University of Birmingham where he began researching the relationship between the internet and democracy. After graduating in 2013, he moved to London and has worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; the London Assembly; the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport; KPMG; and the UK Parliament. - from webrootsdemocracy.org

Positions

“Our research has found users self-censoring their opinions online out of fear [of abuse] and opting instead to talk about politics in private forums”
26 December 2018
https://www.rferl.org/a/social-media-outrage-civil-discourse-keyboard-warriors/29677441.html
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