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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      Foreign meddling is real but it's a symptom not the actual illness: our domestic polarization and how our public sphere operates. We're looking for ibuprofen to cure an infection. For a solution, focus less on less Russia, more on the US. My NYT piece: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/midterms-facebook-foreign-meddling.html …pic.twitter.com/yYqDuJl1M9

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      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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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted electricblue

      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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      electricblue @Dreamscythe
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      The media (NYT included) harping on about emails had way more of an effect on the election than Putin could’ve dreamed of.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      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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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      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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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

      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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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

          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 …

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 3 Oct 2018

          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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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Oct 2018

          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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        2. electricblue‏ @Dreamscythe 3 Oct 2018
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          I wonder if anyone who owns media companies sees the coverage of the 2016 election as a “failure” or rather a “massive windfall” either way the only distinction I see vs SV is how much ad money is involved.

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        3. electricblue‏ @Dreamscythe 3 Oct 2018
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          While I love the investigative stuff it’s run alongside the breathless breaking rumors, access peddlers and palace intrigue bs and it’s all really bad for the country in a way nobody reflects upon, and I hate defending it just because Trump says they’re the enemy of the people.

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        1. Ben Rosengart‏ @fivetonsflax 3 Oct 2018
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          The good-faith mass media, sure. But Fox News is another story.

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        2. The Beyond Bullying Project‏ @BBPStories 3 Oct 2018
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          @Threadreaderapp unroll please

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        3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 3 Oct 2018
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          Saluti the unroll you asked for: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1047466030862360576.html … Talk to you soon. 🤖

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        1.  🥀 🎼‏ @Trace___65roses 3 Oct 2018
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          You had every opportunity to speak out about the Political Prisoner #RealityWinner in this article and chose to focus on a symptom of the underlying issue rather than the Patriot who used her act of civil disobedience in warning us of the interference in our electoral process. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1047457134487764992 …
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