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Interested in competition policy. Fellow at the Open Markets Division at New America.

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    Oct 24

    My piece on why the Watergate generation rejected populism, embraced monopoly power, and destabilized politics...

    128 replies 888 retweets 1,459 likes
  2. 10 hours ago

    Pharmaceuticals poured 780 million painkillers into West Virginia - that's 433 pills for every man, woman and child.

    39 replies 512 retweets 364 likes
  3. 7 hours ago

    The Long and Brutal History of Fake News

    8 replies 99 retweets 125 likes
  4. 16 hours ago

    oh cool phrenology is mainstream again

    The disturbingly accurate brain science that identifies potential criminals while they’re still toddlers
    11 replies 98 retweets 135 likes
  5. 16 hours ago

    Very much including our Silicon Valley saviors.

    It's fascinating to me how much big-time business people appear to have genuinely changed their mind about Trump since Election Day.
    4 replies 11 retweets 39 likes
  6. Dec 17

    This is abt something completely different yet: strong parallels to Dem donors ie: owners of Dem party in CA, NY & Chicago, and their myopia

    5. Absentee ownership meant that the owners didn't pay attention to how their institutions affected people where those owners didn't live.
    1 reply 11 retweets 21 likes
  7. Dec 17

    Stormfront creates the hate. But asserts The Algorithm made by Google's power distributes it. (h/t )

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  8. Dec 17

    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.

    3 replies 4 retweets 36 likes
  9. Dec 17

    "We are saddened to see that hate orgs still exist... That hate sites appear in search results does not mean Google endorses these views.”

    1 reply 2 retweets 6 likes
  10. Dec 17

    This is absentee ownership --> "How to bump Holocaust deniers off Google’s top spot? Pay Google"

    4 replies 23 retweets 33 likes
  11. Dec 17

    Good insight here. We wouldn't be so worked up by an atomistic bulletin board for racists.

    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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  12. Dec 17

    I can tell you from personal experience businesses are willing to shovel a lot of money into "optimization."

    27. Optimization, aka gaming The Algorithm, becomes an industry. This opens the way for modern fake news.
    1 reply 3 retweets 14 likes
  13. Dec 17

    41. Otherwise, we will not be dealing just with Fake News, but with a Fake Democracy as well. There, that's my tweet storm.

    22 replies 76 retweets 164 likes
  14. Dec 17

    40. Communities must have the ability to organize their own public commons for debate and speech, unmediated by private monopolies.

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  15. Dec 17

    39. What we need to restore democracy is a wholesale anti-monopoly approach to our media ecosystem, starting but not ending w/ the platforms

    5 replies 103 retweets 158 likes
  16. Dec 17

    38. It's worse today, but this is a longstanding issue. Fourteen years ago, it was fake news around the war in Iraq.

    4 replies 41 retweets 69 likes
  17. Dec 17

    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.

    1 reply 30 retweets 47 likes
  18. Dec 17

    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

    3 replies 90 retweets 169 likes
  19. Dec 17

    35. But fundamentally, such control is not consistent with a democracy, with a free press, or with freedom of association.

    5 replies 51 retweets 92 likes
  20. Dec 17

    34. Hoping that if it does this outsourcing, people won't notice FB's total control over our free speech commons via The Algorithm.

    2 replies 46 retweets 95 likes
  21. Dec 17

    33. FB acts as a sovereign power unto itself. It outsources censorship to sites like Politifact, a site with clear policy biases.

    1 reply 69 retweets 109 likes

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