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Author, fanwriter, trash bandit, queer geek feminist, dork. Jack of all pronouns, mxtress of none. Yells about hockey. Aussie in the US.

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    1. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

      Hot take: emotional labour is certainly a thing - and a sucky thing at that - but telling people who ask questions about your area of expertise to “just Google it” in the fake news era is putting a hell of a lot of trust in an algorithm that doesn’t distinguish true from false.

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    2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

      If you Google for topics like black deaths in police shootings or which gender wins more custody battles, I guarantee some of the top results will be from deliberately biased and frequently inaccurate sources, because THE ALGORITHM DOES NOT CARE.

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      Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

      I’m not saying you always owe every stranger your time and energy, especially if they’re engaging in bad faith. But we need to admit that just pointing someone towards the internet and saying “Educate yourself!” is part of how so many people now have terrible wrong opinions.

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        2. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          Every anti-vaxxer thinks they’ve educated themselves online, because they did what everyone said to do - they looked things up! But the people who bothered to steer their initial search had an agenda, they didn’t distinguish good sources from bad, and now they’re radicalised.

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        3. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          This isn’t to say that search engines are useless, either. But looking for a *specific* source using *specific* language is different to exhorting a confused fencesitter to type in a generic inquiry about a complex issue.

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        4. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          I understand that the burden of explanation falls too often on the exhausted; that people need money to live. But the only cure for an internet whose layout inherently level-fields lies and gossip with facts is to re-instill its users with a respect for experts and expertise -

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        5. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          - and that can’t happen if the received wisdom tells those experts not to waste their energy, to refuse to explain; to palm their interlocutors off on the same amoral search engines whose results have built their ignorance in the first place.

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        6. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          The mob sealioning and bad faith tactics of the alt-right online this past decade have had an end goal all along, and it was this: to make the left so hostile to explaining itself and its theories that the willingness of extremists to chat looks rational by comparison.

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        7. Foz Meadows‏ @fozmeadows 12 Jun 2019

          I know we’re all tired of explaining why we deserve to have equal rights; to exist; to be treated as people. But knowing how much disinformation is out there, just telling people to research it as though the truth is obvious will do us more harm than good in the long run. FIN

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