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Writer at @WIRED. Author of NYT bestseller 'Chaos Monkeys'. Formerly @Facebook, @YCombinator, @GoldmanSachs. Yes, I live on a boat and in a yurt. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Journalists who cover Facebook and bristle at their haughty disdain and/or patronizing condescension, consider this illustrative example from Daniel Ellsberg, discussing a conversation he had with Kissinger. The problem is with asymmetric information.https://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/02/daniel-ellsberg-limitations-knowledge/ …

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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Imagine you left your post at whatever outlet, and actually got a job as PM at Facebook, leading a team whose work you've covered. Suddenly, you've got access to all the dashboards and information flow of insiders. Your eyes will be opened to what was once dimly perceived.pic.twitter.com/872GXoQ9cl

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      You'll feel like a fool as you realize how much you missed seeing from the outside, and how partial your view once was. You'll also begin to understand the real scale of the challenge, and how limited even Facebook's resources are against billions of users and trillions of posts.pic.twitter.com/aPmvm7s36V

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Turning back to your former colleagues in the press, you read their views and analysis, and begin to hold it in the same disdain you once resented. "If they knew what I knew, they wouldn't think as they do," you'll think to yourself, and dismiss what they say as uninformed.pic.twitter.com/GmBFv5PFG8

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    5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Given the chasm in understanding and information, you stop listening to the press, and treat them only as a PR problem to be managed. The FB comms team sends you emailed summaries of the day's coverage, highlights what needs to be dealt with, and you ignore the rest.pic.twitter.com/Cw004n3CvZ

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    6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Eventually though, you realize that your privileged viewpoint is also blinding in its own way. Along with all that data come some big biases and assumptions about the world. As you deafen yourself to the outside world and its whining, you also miss out on some truths.pic.twitter.com/Qk1JfChSFe

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    7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      As with most major conflicts, this one is made bigger because both sides are partially right. It *is* true that if most journalists knew what insiders know, they'd think very differently about Facebook and its attendant problems, and the media narrative would totally change.

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    8. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      But it's also true that FBers live inside a blinding miasma of values and assumptions: the world looks very different from Menlo Park (inside a Disneyland campus) than it does from a Rohingya refugee camp or a Brazilian favela. The journalists also see things FBers don't.

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    9. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      This is real FB pickle: Journalists with little information, reporting on insiders with better information (themselves blinded by a corporate culture that feels besieged and can't shake itself out of the FB perspective), read by a public that largely doesn't understand any of it.

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    10. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      Unlike Kissinger though, the journalists are never getting clearances. FB does a uniquely bad job at conveying their view, and journalists aren't really incentivized to understand it anyhow. They're as captive to the media cycle as anyone, despite collectively creating it.pic.twitter.com/z5Prp5Odjy

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

      The full impact of Facebook, or really the mass adoption of socially-connected smartphones, will only be understood decades from now. I suspect much contemporary coverage will seem silly in retrospect, but so will many of FB's actions.

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        1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 5

          Personally, I try to ignore the fleeting hangups of the FB commentariat (e.g. Cambridge Analytica), and focus on the bigger technology shifts. Take the recent example of WhatsApp, which differs markedly from core FB, and yet has caused much turmoil.https://www.wired.com/story/why-whatsapp-became-a-hotbed-for-rumors-and-lies-in-brazil/ …

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        2. Cristian Nyari‏Verified account @Cnyari Nov 5
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          Maybe a good example of how much more siloed institutions have become vis a vis our growing expectation of what information we should know or have access to?

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        3. Cristian Nyari‏Verified account @Cnyari Nov 5
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          Also, these are potentially entirely new protocols/norms that are being established, or even understood, by both sides while both are still trying to get shit done. Not sure there is a solution that pleases both (or works for that matter).

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        1. Robot Bastard‏ @Robot_Bastard Nov 5
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          Gonna be one of those things where teachers will have to spend a lot of time explaining how these people weren't dumb, they just didn't know what was going on, and were having valid responses to what they *did* know.

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