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Writer for The Interpreter, a column exploring the ideas and context behind major world events. On book leave through 12/2020.

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  2. Sep 18

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  3. Sep 18

    I keep thinking about Ziblatt & Levitsky’s research on how democracies collapse. A disturbingly consisting tipping point: one party smashing norms to control the courts. Starts a downward cycle that is hard to stop.

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  4. Sep 16

    The Facebook exec in charge of the news feed during both rounds of violence got a big promotion afterwards

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  5. Sep 16

    To be clear, Facebook’s inaction in Myanmar and Sri Lanka wasn’t because they didn’t know. Human rights monitors were flying to Menlo Park and cornering FB officials at conferences to plead with them to do something, anything. They knew every step of the way.

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  6. Sep 16

    I’m not saying the outcome will be the same but this is almost word-for-word what went viral on FB in Myanmar and Sri Lanka just before the incitement turned to massive real-world violence. In both cases Facebook did nothing even as innocent people were dying.

    72,000 shares on this post calling for the government to "wipe out" BLM and antifa. (For scale, Trump's best-performing post today got 17,000 shares.)
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    Sep 15

    Feel bad for Palestinians being subjected to this cringeworthy Good Cop-Bad Cop routine over such a long period of time. It takes many spokes to turn a wheel and the wheel is simply turning.

    4. Fortunately, Israel and the US made the right choice. In addition to opening new official ties with Arab states, burying annexation helps keep the two-state solution alive. Palestinians may be unhappy today. But there are possibilities toward a better future for them.
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    Sep 15

    Expect appeals, but this ruling could lead to deportations for upwards of 400,000 migrants, many of whom have worked here legally for decades, own homes, and have children who are citizens.

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    Sep 13

    Jesus this story

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    Sep 8

    Introducing The Deal: a new podcast series about the Iran nuclear deal. How it came together, how it fell apart and what that means for the rest of us. By of , and

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    Sep 7

    Hard to say who will discover the vaccine, but easy to predict who will get credit -- whichever group of scientists Michael Lewis is currently embedded with.

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    Aug 31

    I have so much family in Irving. This is scary

    This was sent to various Muslim families in Irving including a personal friend of mine who has 5 children. Disgusting.
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  13. Aug 25

    I am writing a book on this, which is why it's on my mind. I don't yet have a preorder page, but if you follow this account I promise I will eventually inundate you with preorder links until you either cave or block me!

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  14. Aug 25

    Anyway, I know it’s more fun to read tweets that are anti-protesters or anti-anti-protesters. But it’s worth pausing to observe that this technology is shaping our collective behavior in ways that might feel good in the moment but can be distorting in the aggregate.

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  15. Aug 25

    This one looks likely to fizzle out, but we’ve all seen mass online outrage lead to excessive harassment and threats. Each person who gets Mad Online might be right individually but the scale, speed, and frictionlessness of online mass collective outrage can still be unhealthy.

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  16. Aug 25

    DC protester discourse is a good illustration of how social media works. It enabled people to highlight and discourage what was legitimately bad behavior. But it also ensured the backlash would grow way out of proportion: thousands of condemnations, sweeping outrage takes, etc.

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  17. Aug 24

    I know people get fussy about American corporations contributing to the rise of the German far-right so let me just say (1) What could go wrong (2) What is YouTube supposed to do, turn off its recommendation system on political videos and only make NINETEEN billion?? Get real

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  18. Aug 24

    YouTube only brought in $20+ billion in revenue last year, though, so it's not like the company is in a position to slow down the engagement-maximizing algorithms that drive its business model and are repeatedly linked to YouTube-borne radicalization, including in this study

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  19. Aug 24

    Oh just a deep empirical study demonstrating YouTube's role in the rise of the German online far-right

    Tl;dr: YouTube is instrumental in facilitating a community for the German far-right. We have talked before about online radicalisation and how relevant algorithms are in creating communities. Here, we show the relevance of user comments for the creation of "imagined communities."
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    Aug 21

    The big part of harassment that people who haven't been repeatedly harassed by a hateful mob are lucky to not get is: It changes your life forever. You don't enjoy the activity again. You don't trust as easily. You do all you can to protect your privacy and your loved ones 1/4

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  21. Aug 19

    Sometimes people would get in an argument about Steely Dan or whatever, but there were very few formal UN investigations into whether the board's design features contributed to any mass genocides!

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