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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      4/ The analogy to politics is nearly perfect. Clinton, Bush (Rove), Obama all used digital tech, but were "hybrid" presidents.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      5/ Trump is first true digital-native president, first to fully adopt and win by fully embodying the "message of the medium" of the "cyber"

      4 replies 1 retweet 13 likes
    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      6/ Everything fits. Including the Melania pics, his attacks on Cruz's wife, allegations of behavior in Miss Universe etc.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      7/ I personally think the golden-shower stuff is entirely fake, but the pussy-grab episode is why it fits the Trump narrative

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      8/ So if Trump is the Porn President, being an early adopter of digital politics, it feels right that Social Network President should follow

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      9/ Metaphor bleeds into reality in a messy way here. FB and Twitter as the primary conduits of "fake news" that helped shape the result

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      10/ Last week, I argued that in letting new media be used this way, tech leaders failed the call to Arendtian actionhttp://us1.campaign-archive1.com/?u=78cbbb7f2882629a5157fa593&id=1c7f9a4112 …

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      11/ I have an evolved view now. The problem of fake news and trolls is not actually solvable at the level of the media. It's the wrong locus

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      12/ Trump played old AND new media equally because the old media abdicated responsibilities out of financial desperation of clickbait era.

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    10. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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      13/ But new media didn't so much abdicate responsibilities (and they had no financial pressure) as encounter technological limits

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      14/ Politics needs to be reinvented for the digital age, transcending categories like "democracy", "monarchism", and "autocracy."

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        2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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          15/ Look around. Who has experience dealing with such massive category-refactoring social dynamics at the scale of billions of humans?

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          16/ There is literally only 1 person in US right now who qualifies: Zuckerberg. Other candidates haven't dealt with the scale/complexity

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        2. neil21‏ @neil21 13 Jan 2017
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          Digi-poli, like the fluid transferable vote pirate stuff? "I hereby designate venkat to vote on my behalf in the following categories?"

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr 13 Jan 2017
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          .@neil21 I don't know. Digital politics has to be slowly evolved/invented along the way. It's already whole new beast in familiar skin

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