Matt StollerVerified account

@matthewstoller

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

Joined March 2007

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

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

  3. The Long and Brutal History of Fake News

  4. oh cool phrenology is mainstream again

  5. Very much including our Silicon Valley saviors.

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

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

  8. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  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.

  18. 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

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

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

  21. 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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