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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. 🇺🇸🇪🇸

Orcas Island, WA
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    1. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      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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    2. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      What's funny is how the whole disinformation media cycle was going full throttle, complete with a cottage industry in finding some random, shitty, moderately viral FB post and writing a story about it, until Nov. 6th. Now, suddenly everything looks different. Amazing.

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    3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      My principal beef here is twofold: 1. While journalists bang their keyboards into dust writing stories about how FB is terrible as it's optimized for undiscriminating viral distribution (true, of course), they themselves (like it or not) are now subject to the same economics.

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    4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      Meaning, they're not the uncontaminated purveyors of truth they like to think they are. They also collectively ride various mimetic waves across the mediascape. They're better than online disinfo peddlers of course--they still adhere to standards, but that delta is narrowing.

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    5. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      McLuhan is laughing in his grave. This is what he meant by that cliché and cryptic 'The media is the message.' The content of the media doesn't matter, the way the media warps our brain into thinking about it (and the larger world) is what matters.

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    6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      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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    7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      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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    8. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      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.

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      Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8

      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.

      11:10 AM - 8 Nov 2018 from Seattle, WA
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        2. codyb‏Verified account @CodyBrown Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm

          think you would be less disliked here if you spent more time thinking about ways to help the conversation around all of this stuff evolve, then just shitting on the class of people trying to make sense of it all

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @CodyBrown

          I don't exactly hear lots of proposed (realistic) solutions coming from anyone. Personally, I think the Gutenberg era of Enlightenment institutions like nation-states, liberal democracy, objective truth, etc. is over. The smartphone is undoing what the printing press created.

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        4. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm @CodyBrown

          Either we engage in some reactionary Luddism, a real-life Butlerian Jihad, and reject virtualized identity and social media entirely. Or human culture, probably after much violence and turmoil, adapts and enters some new, hard-to-predict age.

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        5. Jeff Bercovici‏Verified account @jeffbercovici Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm @CodyBrown

          so your position is basically that the journalists in question are right that tech is bad (assuming you like Enlightenment values/dislike violence) but silly for thinking anyone can do anything about it?

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        6. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @jeffbercovici @CodyBrown

          This is about the worst forum for this discussion, but it's what we have (speaking of deleterious social media). Globally, I think we all agree on the impact of social media, whether good/bad. The question is what exactly is wrong with it, and what (if anything) can be done.

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        7. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm @jeffbercovici @CodyBrown

          Among many other civilizational headwinds we face--inequality, looming automation, climate change--social media serves to exacerbate underlying problems and serve as megaphone to the worst (and rarely best) among us. Even if FB goes away tomorrow, we're in trouble.

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        8. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm @jeffbercovici @CodyBrown

          But leaving that aside and focusing on FB, yes, I think we often obsess over the wrong things re: FB. There have been so many headline topics in this busy FB media cycle, I almost can't keep track. First, supposedly 'micro-targeting' was the horrifying bogeyman.

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        9. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm @jeffbercovici @CodyBrown

          Cambridge Analytica could swing an election using provably ineffectual keyword targeting in FB, but hey 'psychometrics'. Well, where'd that story go? Targeting system is the same as before. Now it's not worth worrying about?

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        2. Ryan Freitas‏ @ryanchris Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm

          It's almost like you have better things to do than be slandered in your mentions.

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        3. Antonio García Martínez‏Verified account @antoniogm Nov 8
          Replying to @ryanchris

          Well, that. Though I think the knights would be more passive-aggressive about it, and just shit on my next book instead. They still have a certain gatekeeping power, frayed though it may be.

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        1. Brian Patrick Eha‏Verified account @brianeha Nov 8
          Replying to @antoniogm

          Yep. Media people, in my experience, are world class at pointing out the specks in other people's eyes while ignoring the logs in their own. Bravo for this thread.

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        1. Zach Butler‏ @zchyboy Nov 8
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          Society and the Spectacle?

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