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billionaire media tycoon and mayor of san francisco. vp @foundersfund. ringleader @hereticon. editor-in-chief @ pirate wires 🏴‍☠️

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    1. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      RECODE: Implies #covid2019 only "scary" to "public" because "new" CONTEXT: Omits - NEJM, Lancet papers on sheer severity - Caijing’s courageous reporting on severity - Math of tail risk for a pandemic - Fact that many qualified PhDs/MDs, both in SV & outside, have voiced concernpic.twitter.com/YfLLm4XHtx

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    2. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      RECODE: Implies flu is a "greater threat" CONTEXT: Omits - Columbia's Ian Lipkin: "I reject that soundly" - 100X increase in Chinese cases in 3 weeks [JHU] - 100X increase in *non*-Chinese cases in 3 weeks [JHU] - Again, pandemic threat is based on math of tail riskpic.twitter.com/diGLiSKedh

      4 replies 39 retweets 307 likes
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    3. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      RECODE: Calls tech "terrified" and "paranoid" CONTEXT: Omits in-depth discussion of: - Sheer scale of Chinese quarantine - Hospitalization & fatality rates - Contagiousness estimates - 100X growth in non-China cases across 25+ countries - Confirmed transmission at conferencespic.twitter.com/gWfBsyBMmQ

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    4. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Balaji Srinivasan

      RECODE: Also does not discuss: - tech the Chinese are using to fight virus - hardware implications of supply chain disruption - what biotech is doing: antivirals, vaccines, diagnostics This obvious omission was *also* predicted in advance!https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1225862128168570887 …

      Balaji Srinivasan added,

      Balaji SrinivasanVerified account @balajis
      Not covering - technologies the Chinese are using to fight the virus - hardware implications of supply chain disruptions - what biotech is doing in terms of antivirals, vaccines Is covering - your tweets pic.twitter.com/etTt5ZVzOY
      4 replies 24 retweets 257 likes
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    5. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      It's 2000+ words. I could go on. But there's a point. - I assumed bad faith, as I had context - Not just on this piece, but on tech journalism in 2020 - Some lacked context & didn't understand why I called it out But as you can see, it was indeed a piece about handshakes!pic.twitter.com/XM5RrxvEes

      6 replies 46 retweets 428 likes
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    6. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      Why was I right? Contra one comment, I’m not a psychic. I just have a mental model that correctly predicts the actions of many tech journalists. The sad truth is they are incentivized to produce clickbait. This is partly tech's fault too: social media created these incentives.

      4 replies 54 retweets 668 likes
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    7. Balaji Srinivasan‏Verified account @balajis 14 Feb 2020

      Balaji Srinivasan Retweeted Marc Andreessen

      Again, this article is something of a rubicon for tech journalism, as it crosses the line into a hazard to public health. More later, but for now: - Take virus seriously, WHO/CDC are - Don’t take unserious journalists seriously - And avoid handshakes! 🙏https://twitter.com/pmarca/status/1227471118233219072 …

      Balaji Srinivasan added,

      Marc AndreessenVerified account @pmarca
      Public Service Announcement pic.twitter.com/crUoVybM8I
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    8. Teddy Schleifer‏Verified account @teddyschleifer 14 Feb 2020
      Replying to @balajis

      how long did this thread take you

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    9. Dan Romero‏ @dwr 14 Feb 2020
      Replying to @teddyschleifer @balajis

      Any comment on the accuracy of the article?

      1 reply 0 retweets 19 likes
    10. Teddy Schleifer‏Verified account @teddyschleifer 14 Feb 2020
      Replying to @dwr @balajis

      these seems like points balaji could've made in response to a well-meaning inquiry but it's of course more fun to Rack Up the Faves if you're a VIP tech leader

      5 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
      Mike Solana‏ @micsolana 14 Feb 2020
      Replying to @teddyschleifer @dwr @balajis

      your team proved the inquiry wasn’t “well-meaning” when you published the exact piece balaji said you would

      4:09 PM - 14 Feb 2020
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        1. Sar Haribhakti‏ @sarthakgh 14 Feb 2020
          Replying to @micsolana @teddyschleifer and

          almost like the humans that write professionally and humans that write on social media are prone to the same engagement based biz model, one might say

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