idk every day I think about delving into an update of the Internet of Garbage but who has time for that
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Also i love that this story suggests that Men are the real internet of garbagepic.twitter.com/jVrX5Ag3bj
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(It’s a really short piece and it can spawn hours of really great and novel discussion and I appreciate that!)
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Another piece I think about: “bots” and “filter bubbles” are euphemistic ways to refer to an ingrained human refusal to engage with reality or responsibility
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The “fake news” we choose says something about us: I think a lot about the “Irish slaves” meme that rewrote history. It’s a refusal to grapple with reality or the existence of real people.
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A lot of conspiracy theories are about how things are rigged, that a nefarious force is in control — again, a refusal to accept chaos and meaninglessness or sometimes even the possibility that your own actions will substantively help or harm people around you
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Before I became an ~ educated left wing elite ~ I grew up in a conservative evangelical community. I was taught abstinence and creation science.
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The impulses that drive online fakery have existed for a long time in entrenched, fully-fleshed out real life social networks that indoctrinate children and rely on familial ties to propagate reality-denying belief systems
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I think the anecdote about that online dating site is fascinating because it suggests again a refusal to engage with reality — on the part of straight men
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Of course there’s the part that we’re trying to discuss right now: that fakeness harms people and possibly political systems at large. I like danah’s point because it first points to the flip side: that some of us like fakeness and choose fakeness, sometimes knowingly
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I think we’re really too married to the binary of unwilling dupes and nefarious propagandists. I think a lot of propagandists, on some level, believe their bullshit, and a lot of the unwilling dupes kind of do know
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(borrowing from the mens rea framework) — you can’t just say some sketch guy paid you tens of thousands of dollars to drive a car across state lines and told you not to look in the trunk, and because you never looked you definitely never trafficked drugs
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I love that she compares fake followers to makeup, but I wish she'd gone deeper. It's not *just* that people are wiling to do anything to get attention, it's that we're given these bizarre, arbitrary metrics to measure success by, and sometimes "fraud" is the easy fix.
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It reminds me of the meaningless arms race for users for venture capital / to satisfy stockholders, as well as the arms race in digital publishing for traffic
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All of these metrics actively make our lives worse
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I wish at the very least that it didn’t conflate bots which disseminate info (like the 538 Census bot) with purchased accounts meant to amplify an unpopular idea and convince people it has broad support.
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Calling that kind of automated RT army digital mascara downplays the real harm that is done by bot networks designed to amplify white supremacists or drown real scientists talking about climate change.
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you know what's awesome? i started reading danah boyd before i could tell my ass from my elbow, social-issues wise, because i used her database of ani difranco lyrics when i was a 14 year old bisexual and clicked back to her main site, and she's still fucking great
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danah is so great!!
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I am thoroughly impressed, and I've been in the guts of this very problem
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