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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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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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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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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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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