publications

For a complete list, see my CV.

articles and conference proceedings

Kharazian, Zarine, Starbird, Kate, and Hill, Benjamin Mako. Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 8, no. 1, April 2024, pp. 61:1–61:26. DOI:10.1145/3637338.

Prochaska, Stephen, Duskin, Kayla, Kharazian, Zarine, Minow, Carly, Blucker, Stephanie, Venuto, Sylvie, West, Jevin D., and Starbird, Kate. Mobilizing Manufactured Reality: How Participatory Disinformation Shaped Deep Stories to Catalyze Action during the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, vol. 7, no. 1, April 2023, pp. 1–39. DOI:10.1145/3579616.

Kharazian, Zarine. Yet Another French Exception: The Political Dimensions of France’s Support for the Digital Right to Be Forgotten. European Data Protection Law Review, vol. 3, no. 4, April 2017, pp. 452–462. DOI:10.21552.

public memos and essays

Prochaska, Stephen, Duskin, Kayla, Nguyễn, Sarah, Kharazian, Zarine, Schafer, Joey, Starbird, Kate, and Caulfield, Mike. Voting Rights Legislation Framed to Support Election Conspiracy Theories About Non-citizens Voting. Election Integrity Partnership, 2024. Link.

Kharazian, Zarine, Jalbert, Madeline, Dash, Saloni, Memon, Shahan Ali, Starbird, Kate, Spiro, Emma S., and West, Jevin D. Our field was built on decades-old bodies of research across a range of disciplines. It wasn’t invented by a ‘class of misinformation experts’ in 2016. Center for an Informed Public, 2024. Link.

Kharazian, Zarine, and Knight, Tessa. Facebook removes inauthentic assets linked to the Philippine military. DFRLab, September 2020. Link.

Kharazian, Zarine. Patriotic astroturfing in the Azerbaijan-Armenia Twitter war. DFRLab, July 2020. Link.

DFRLab. Walkthrough: Tracking the spread of the debunked Plandemic video. Link.

Brooking, Emerson, Kann, Alyssa, and Kharazian, Zarine. Disinformation about ‘antifa’ provides fodder for foreign propagandists. DFRLab, July 2020. Link.

Kharazian, Zarine, and Knight, Tessa. Why the debunked COVID-19 conspiracy video “Plandemic” won’t go away. Medium, May 2020. Link.