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.
But how was this not a catastrophe (other than the result)? Did the metrics actually change vs. 2016? I haven't read a single piece that compares something measurable between then and now (and again, it's understandably hard to get hard numbers as an outside observer).
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Your skepticism is warranted — it’s too early to know, especially with so little data. I’d view an *obvious* catastrophe as an election-day hoax that reached liftoff to the point we all knew about it. But we may yet learn there were pernicious campaigns operating on a large scale
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Right. Here's what I think will happen: there might be another big disinfo blowup left, but mostly we'll consider the problem as fixed as it's going to be, and start wigging out over some other aspect of FB (as we once did about privacy, say).
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