What Grok Is Actually For — Interview with Akin Unver

What Grok Is Actually For — Interview with Akin Unver

Here’s the finding: people on Turkish Twitter aren’t using AI fact-checks to learn — they’re using them as weapons in rhetorical fights. In this interview recorded at the 2026 Tech for Open Minds Annual Conference, Akin Unver (Ozyegin University) walks through that counterintuitive discovery with methodological transparency, including a notebook walkthrough that shows his work. He also discusses why the Turkey context — including a fascinating detail about Wikipedia engagement — expands rather than limits what CSS can tell us about AI and democracy globally, and what he’d want younger scholars to take away from how the research was done.