I find the evidence of RU meddling to be credible and so much of it happened in public! It might have had an impact given the close election—especially through hacked emails and also how media went along with that part. It's still not the correct focus to try to fix what ails us.
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I do not disagree though the issue of the emails isn't totally disconnected from the RU meddling (through hacked emails which merged with "emails"). I wrote at length about how trad media dropped the ball from before the election. Not one or the other.https://twitter.com/Dreamscythe/status/1047459541900808192 …
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Here's my piece from before the election, fwiw. Whenever I write about the digital side of our public sphere, people will say what about traditional media. Well, yep. It's rare that any problem worth worrying about is ever single-causal. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/IoxjgHFDTJ
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But there are differences. Facebook won't ever do what the NYT did yesterday—a deeply-reported piece alleging tax evasion by a sitting president! Facebook embeds staff with politicians, including Trump, to help them spend their money on Facebook. NYT puts itself in the bullseye.
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I criticize mass media a lot! My book talks about how media ridiculed Occupy at first, and how social media helped it break out. But it's not the same: Silicon Valley can succeed in ways that damage society; Traditional media fails in ways that damage society. Big difference.
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Folks, for a deeper look, here's an article about the study by
@kreissdaniel and@shannimcg about Facebook's role in helping the Trump campaign and Facebook's "embedding" with them in 2016. They find that FB staffers acted like "political operatives." https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/26/facebook-google-twitter-trump-244191 …Show this thread -
Yep. Another example of outside pressure moving these companies. So much leg work is being done by academics, journalists and Propublica—and that's a problem. Costs/downsides and even investigations are externalized. Just FB has half-a-trillion market cap. https://twitter.com/shannimcg/status/1047544327235239937 …pic.twitter.com/Nph6juJXWj
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Whenever I see something I wrote in print, besides being floored that this happens, I have this weird existential angst about no longer being able to edit! An error in a digital version can still be noted and attached indelibly to original. Dead tree, you’re done!pic.twitter.com/vyHPaDYF5v
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Completely agree. It's more the opportunistic infection that strikes once the body politic has sufficiently weakened. In normal circumstances it would be brushed off.
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“The focus on the relationship between privacy & consent must serve as an invitation to examine the broader issues of consent & platform responsibility, or we will end up addressing only a symptom & not the cause.”https://medium.com/@nturkewitz_56674/is-an-economy-based-on-free-incompatible-with-freedom-6a78d898c1cc …
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