The appearance of numerous pieces declaring that, while there's still a way to go, FB has made great strides in handling misinformation, right after a perceived Democratic election victory, is really some impeccable timing.
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Whether we're some uneducated, frustrated loner reading InfoWars on an old PC, or some highly-educated, upwardly mobile (in a world where that's now rare) professional reading the NYT on an iPad, we're all just anxious, exhausted chimps banging on like and share buttons all day.
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Final beef: 2. The professional engineers of the spectacle, the journalists, seem the most taken with their creation. Typically, good dealers don't use. But the spectacle is so blinding, so uncoupled from any reality anymore, you can comfortably live inside it, and we do.
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Put another way, a journalist these days uses
@crowdtangle to find dumb stuff going viral on Facebook, writes a story about it, and then goes to@crowdtangle to see how his piece on the topic is doing. The media snake eats itself, and doesn't even seem to realize it's doing so.Show this thread -
The temptation to tag here is *almost* irresistible, but I think I'm disliked enough as it is, and I've got SF daycare to pay for with all this scribbling. Even among the White Knights of Truth, you've got to go along to get along.
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I say whenever the Dems talk about crafting the "perfect message" to appeal to all! that they need to look at Fox, infofakewars, brietbelch, Rush radio, the tea party, those right-wing reader's digest email chains for the seniors, FB groups/pages...It's the medium not the message
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honest question, antonio: as a writer at the same publication as me, do you not consider yourself part of "the media"?
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