This is nicely different from the short-sighted, occasionally moronic, level of discourse. However, although it’s not intended to encompass everything, I wish it had done more to nod to the problem as a problemhttps://shift.newco.co/the-reality-of-twitter-puffery-or-why-does-everyone-now-hates-bots-47958dcedd3c …
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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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