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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

I disagree, though, that this would be an effective way to stop the spread of disinfo. It relies on the strength of good actors to outweigh the bad ones, and I just don't think that's a winning bet to place in 2019 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/03/what-a-kamala-harris-meme-can-teach-us-about-fighting-fake-news-in-2020-225515 …pic.twitter.com/p1BMLc2Fvw

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

given everything we know about why certain reddit forums thrive or why people are attracted to them, this seems as likely to antagonize or alienate as it does to raise awareness of bad information. https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2019/03/03/what-a-kamala-harris-meme-can-teach-us-about-fighting-fake-news-in-2020-225515 …pic.twitter.com/qJ4heLcxtA

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

point being, even within a single newsroom, you can have smart, well-meaning people disagreeing about what to do about this stuff. Cover it more to swat it down? Ignore it until you can't? Only cover it with Chris Christie mentions it on teevee?

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

organizations, and the journalists within those organizations, have different places for where they draw the line in responding to, swatting down, fact-checking, ignoring disinformation. Where we are now is that none of them seem to work completely on their own.

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

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(I ranted about this with momo last week: https://twitter.com/mccanner/status/1101473992857317376 …)

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Political disinformation, crap like Momo, it's all the same thing, and it prays on human nature, with a little shove from some trolls from time to time, and, in general, we still don't know how to actually combat it on a daily basis, in any meaningful way.

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

annnnyway, in a nation of subreddits, local news stations, satire, facebook, bad actors, new-era Snopes, twitter-threading professors, fact checks, no there will be no one true collaborative source that stops disinfo, political or non. That's unsettling, yes.

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

I just keep thinking about hurricane shark. This @CraigSilverman interview with the scottish guy encapsulates everything about the age of disinfo and our (lack of?) power to stop the tidal wave https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/craigsilverman/the-guy-who-tweeted-the-fake-viral-street-shark-photo-says …pic.twitter.com/ugy7bqDlva

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

like what do we, as a news industry, DO with that? you lay out the facts. you debunk the damn shark 20 times in a decade because you have to. where does it end? Shark guy's still gonna post it again, and the hoax gets another 5 years of life.pic.twitter.com/rOyr3JspQ0

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erin mccann | Retweeted Tom Phillips

the thing abut that dumb shark — and let the shark stand in for ANYTHING viral and dumb and should-be-obviously not true — is that there's always going to be someone new around here who didn't know about the shark.https://twitter.com/flashboy/status/1102601496494047234 …

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Replying to @mccanner

i hate that fuckin shark

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

so THEN you have #content needs crashing into need to inform crashing into newsroom resources crashing into The Way We Live now and excuse me i'm going to live on a mountain now.

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erin mccann |‏Verified account @mccanner 4 Mar 2019

viral shark doo doo doo doo doo dooo viral shark doo doo doo doo doo dooo viral shark doo doo doo doo doo dooo viral shark

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  erin mccann | Retweeted Ben Collins
  
  An addendum to this thread. There IS a path to covering the conspiracies without elevating them, which is to cover the avenues through which they spread. Here's a really good example of that approach:https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1102726153087922176?s=21 …
  
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  New from me: A Qanon book that alleges the US government created both AIDS and Monsters Inc. (as a tutorial on how to do eat children) is up to No. 56 of all books purchased. It’s in recommendation carousels. And Amazon will not comment on any of this. https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/amazon-qanon-conspiracy-book-climbs-charts-algorithmic-push-n979181 …
  
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