Put my phone away for a few hours. When I came back, Twitter was full of people retweeting this CNBC headline I was so mad at myself. How could I have missed something so significant? Banning disinfo would be not just be unconstitutional, it also. . . makes no sense. 2/
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So I opened the Warren page again. I wasn't wrong. There was nothing saying "criminal penalties for spreading disinformation online" GENERALLY. It was civil/criminal penalties for disinformation relating to "when and how to vote." That's pretty different. 3/
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In an incredible moment of irony, CNBC's headline about disinformation penalties was itself. . . misinformation. And it was a tremendous example of how modern headlines can proliferate poisonously wrong ideas. A few take-aways: 4/
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(1) CNBC isn't RT. It isn't Breitbart. It isn't MotherJones. It's relatively mainstream. There was no real agenda here. (2)That maybe made its error even more dangerous because people were most trusting of the headline. 5/
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(3) Imagine if this was happening 12 hours before the caucuses or New Hampshire. Or the general. Imagine the harm to Warren. (4) Mistakes happen. Misunderstandings happen. The problem is the harms go farther, live longer, and have more impact than ever before. 6/
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(5) Consider all of the above when you're talking about disinformation and misinformation and who/how we hold people, news orgs and companies accountable for it. 7/7
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CNBC needs to print, tweet, make an on air a correction. Mistakes happen, yes. Don't make another mistake by just leaving it hanging out there.
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They have been asked here on Twitter, to no avail last I checked.
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I complain about the headlines all the time. It’s as though a tabloid is writing for sensationalism.
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People are spreading misinformation about it?
Hvala. Twitter će to iskoristiti za poboljšanje vaše vremenske crte. PoništiPoništi
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