I've been trying to push algo-driven misinformation.
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Replying to @emptywheel
As in algorithms causing people to selectively view “news” they want to hear?
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Replying to @sponson
Well, no. bc Algos don't explain why people choose Fox over MSNBC, where the very same thing fosters shitty journalism too.
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Replying to @sponson
Take a step back: What distinguishes what this guy did from what James O'Keefe has done, to much greater effect, for years?
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Replying to @emptywheel
O’Keefe paid by big GOP donors; “news” forger paid by Google?
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Replying to @emptywheel
O’Keefe’s stunts are all over the MSM or once were; NYT “forger” used FB to promote his fabrications-spread like wildfire
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Replying to @sponson
That's why I focus on algos FB uses to magnify content. This dude's stuff'd not get notice w/o feeding on appetite for sensational
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Replying to @emptywheel
My culprit also (FB algorithms); but what term for what the guy is actually doing? He’s faking news, literally
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Yup. So? He's absolutely right that people make shit up in politics all the time. Why, precisely, is this a risk?
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Replying to @emptywheel @sponson
Did you actually read this piece? https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/01/15/on-fake-news/ …
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