Instead, we have a press corps unable to take their eyes off the bright candy that fell from the piñata plus a lot of social media noise.
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It's no longer age of information scarcity. Censorship works by info glut, distraction, confusion and stealing political focus & attention.
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Wikileaks tweeted out (named) staffer's suicide attempt from hack & CNN discussed it on-air. How are people shrugging this level of damage?
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This is a version of why women don't came forward. If you want to change that, you need to change the whole ecology of treatment afterwards.
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Targeted hacking of political campaigns isn't FOIA. As soon as an dissident group amounts to anything, it will be destroyed via this method.
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There's a chance to not normalize this—by treating it like the danger to the ecology of news & politics it is while it affects the powerful.
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Another danger with an over-emphasis on leaks and hacks in news is the limited context it gives. Inherently distorting.
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Not to mention the difficulty of separating meaningless "inside baseball" from real policy stuff (which may or may not be in there).
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@mattblaze Little context and you also cannot verify authenticity—if there was something TRULY damaging, no way to disprove claim of fake.2 replies 17 retweets 38 likes -
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Even if real, without adding a big dose of old-fashioned journalism, giant data dumps are generally just confusing, as you say.
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and the Trump campaign has been a warning to us about the deadening effect of massive amounts of info, even if it’s bad
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This is the flipside of grading on a curve-- the test of true becomes how often repeated rather than accurate.
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