14 Facts About Evgeny Morozov

Evgeny Morozov was born on 1984 and is a writer, researcher, and intellectual from Belarus who studies political and social implications of technology.

Evgeny Morozov was named one of the 28 most influential Europeans by Politico in 2018.

Evgeny Morozov attended the American University in Bulgaria and lived in Berlin before moving to the United States.

Evgeny Morozov gives guest lectures at cultural centres and has developed teaching and mentorship activities.

Evgeny Morozov expresses skepticism about the view held by some, such as Jared Cohen of Google, that the Internet is helping to democratize authoritarian regimes, arguing that it could be a powerful tool for engaging in mass surveillance, political repression, and spreading nationalist and extremist propaganda.

Evgeny Morozov has criticized what he calls "The Internet Freedom Agenda" of the US government and finds it naive and even counterproductive to the goal of promoting democracy through the Web.

Evgeny Morozov has critiqued "Techno-Feudalist" ideas explored by economists such as Mariana Mazzucato and Yanis Varoufakis.

In January 2011, Evgeny Morozov published his first book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom.

Evgeny Morozov argues against the ideas of cyber-utopianism and Internet-centrism, the propensity to view all political and social change through the prism of the Internet.

In March 2013, Evgeny Morozov published a second book, To Save Everything, Click Here.

Evgeny Morozov criticizes what he calls "technology solutionism," the idea that, as Tim Wu said, "a little magic dust can fix any problem".

Evgeny Morozov believes that technology should be debated alongside debates about politics, economics, history, and culture.

Evgeny Morozov has been criticized by those who are sympathetic to his broader project for failing to provide evidence for his claims beyond stating anecdotes.

In 2023, Evgeny Morozov published The Santiago Boys, a series of podcasts about the 1970s Chilean social internet project Cybersyn by Salvador Allende and involving British cybernetics consultant Stafford Beer.