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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Oct 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Access Now

      By this standard, if authoritarians start using “fabricated” to slander opponent claims, we should drop the term. 🙄 If they accuse dissidents of “lies”, we should stop talking about their lies. This strategy of constant retreat will just end up with self-censorship, and no gain.https://twitter.com/accessnow/status/1049995044860690432 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Access NowVerified account @accessnow
      Use of the term "fake news" has consequences for freedom of expression. It is easily deployed by governments to censor legitimate speech. In #Egypt, Amal Fathy posted a video about sexual harassment & got jail time for spreading false information. http://nymag.com/developing/2018/10/egypt-fake-news-laws-amal-fathy-mona-el-mazbouh-facebook.html …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Oct 2018

      If people can’t keep terms from being misused, that’s a function of power and effective opposition. Abandoning terms and concepts is just a sign of weakness. On what planet do people think if we stop using the term, somehow, it ends up with less censorship by authoritarians?

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    3. Dr N. Brodie נחמה‏Verified account @brodiegal 10 Oct 2018
      Replying to @zeynep

      i don't think that's a fair reading of how (current iteration of) 'fake news' went from US election glitch to rapidly being appropriated by states wanting to subvert it to clamp down on media freedom. this happened very fast, and we warned about this from day one.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Oct 2018
      Replying to @brodiegal

      Warning about it isn't the issue. This constant ceding ground is basically a symptom of how weak dissidents are against authoritarians, and how little most NGOs understand the politics of their own space.

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    5. Dr N. Brodie נחמה‏Verified account @brodiegal 10 Oct 2018
      Replying to @zeynep

      you can't, for example, call an EU commission and policy recommendations, an "NGO" warning others... but the recommendations were perhaps not taken seriously (how would you enforce them anyway?)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Oct 2018
      Replying to @brodiegal

      I'm talking more about the political space in which these concepts are fought over and contested.

      5:54 AM - 10 Oct 2018
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        2. Dr N. Brodie נחמה‏Verified account @brodiegal 10 Oct 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          i think political space includes terminology - particularly where for eg rhetoric propels Fake News legislation (for eg Kenya). once govs codify it, terminology extremely NB. that is distinct from but within political expediency (which also drives it)

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        3. Dr N. Brodie נחמה‏Verified account @brodiegal 10 Oct 2018
          Replying to @brodiegal @zeynep

          cynically, i think the absence of effective *political* opposition is because the ambiguity serves most mainstream political parties. and it's time we reclaimed the word propaganda to describe weaponised (mis)information and disinformatzya.

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