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My piece on why the Watergate generation rejected populism, embraced monopoly power, and destabilized politics...http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/10/how-democrats-killed-their-populist-soul/504710 …
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Pharmaceuticals poured 780 million painkillers into West Virginia - that's 433 pills for every man, woman and child.http://www.wvgazettemail.com/news-health/20161217/drug-firms-poured-780m-painkillers-into-wv-amid-rise-of-overdoses …
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The Long and Brutal History of Fake Newshttp://politi.co/2hf0O1v
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oh cool phrenology is mainstream againhttps://twitter.com/qz/status/810231213944401921 …
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Very much including our Silicon Valley saviors.https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/810475031155208193 …
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This is abt something completely different yet: strong parallels to Dem donors ie: owners of Dem party in CA, NY & Chicago, and their myopiahttps://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/810160769191055360 …
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Stormfront creates the hate. But
@carolecadwalla asserts The Algorithm made by Google's power distributes it. (h/t@FrankPasquale) -
Do not blame Google. It is The Algorithm. The Algorithm is neutral, non-political. It is not Google's responsible. It is no one's. Absentee.
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"We are saddened to see that hate orgs still exist... That hate sites appear in search results does not mean Google endorses these views.”
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This is absentee ownership --> "How to bump Holocaust deniers off Google’s top spot? Pay Google"https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/17/holocaust-deniers-google-search-top-spot …
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Good insight here. We wouldn't be so worked up by an atomistic bulletin board for racists.https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/810171590688260096 …
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I can tell you from personal experience businesses are willing to shovel a lot of money into "optimization."https://twitter.com/matthewstoller/status/810167313198620673 …
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41. Otherwise, we will not be dealing just with Fake News, but with a Fake Democracy as well. There, that's my tweet storm.
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40. Communities must have the ability to organize their own public commons for debate and speech, unmediated by private monopolies.
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39. What we need to restore democracy is a wholesale anti-monopoly approach to our media ecosystem, starting but not ending w/ the platforms
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38. It's worse today, but this is a longstanding issue. Fourteen years ago, it was fake news around the war in Iraq.
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37. Fake news is simply the barnacles that aren't being cleaned out of the system b/c Mark Zuckerberg can't get to them all.
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36. There are many policy approaches to this problem. But it is not a problem of 'fake news', it is a problem of concentrated monopoly power
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35. But fundamentally, such control is not consistent with a democracy, with a free press, or with freedom of association.
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34. Hoping that if it does this outsourcing, people won't notice FB's total control over our free speech commons via The Algorithm.
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33. FB acts as a sovereign power unto itself. It outsources censorship to sites like Politifact, a site with clear policy biases.
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