As conservatives push their tech firm bias critique, it will be fascinating to see if academics move to a kind of algorithmic realism just like many embraced an epistemological realism after 2016.
A version of this happened with "fake news." It's a perfectly good term, except like all things, it lives in a contested epistemological ground and it got taken over. That doesn't mean it was wrong intrinsically; just that this is the current power structure in information wars.
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Similar to how conspiracies about great powers operate: great power bungles something, but it is a great power and thus goes and tries rearrange things to benefit itself. In hindsight, it looks like it was the plan all along to outsiders. Reality: it's a big power that can adapt.
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(see Iraq war conspiracies in MENA)
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People are arguing that we shouldn't use fake news because it got taken over. Okay, maybe, maybe not, but my point is that *it got taken over!! to discredit actual news* That's more indicative of today's dynamics than which term to use for what, and more important.
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