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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2018

    If media can't figure out how to cover terrorism without amplifying the conspiracies (straight-up "debunking" is amplification) that help inspire it and instead runs even more front-page profiles of the killer rather than analysis of WHY WE ARE HERE, we'll just get more copycats.

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2018

        Close reading of a murderers' stickers, their gab posts posted as screenshots (rather than reported on), murderers' faces on every front-page... Just pours gasoline on the fire and not informative. You know what would be informative? Analysis. Reporting rather than amplification.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2018

        Spare me the "we gotta cover the news." WE'RE ASKING YOU TO COVER THE REAL NEWS and stop acting as extras in snuff film directed by murderers. The real news is the rise and normalization of hate speech and racism, guns, polarization fueling deranged killers—not another profile.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2018

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Mark Anderson

        There has been a cascade of research, analysis, organization and many, many voices on this. I started writing about this in long-form around 2012. Media incentive is to keep us looking at this wreck, though. It's the business model plus ideology.https://twitter.com/markemer/status/1056229053949267968 …

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        Mark Anderson @markemer
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        Amen. I feel like you may have pointed this out before. Why does no one listen?
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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 27 Oct 2018

        Congrats, everyone sharing the killer's screenshots from the killer's social network of choice. They're thrilled with all the new potential recruits. (Yes yes this is how it works. Can't you report on what's going on without becoming recruitment tools? It's not that hard.)pic.twitter.com/7zoUuJHlOn

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      1. Sean Blakey‏ @pythonista 27 Oct 2018
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        Really scary when so many are getting their news from social channels with no incentive to minimize copycats.

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      1. IT IS HEAVEN  ☀️ ❤️‍🔥 🌊 💫 🙏 🤟 🤙 🔊 👽 🛸‏ @camerongrey 27 Oct 2018
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        IT IS HEAVEN  ☀️ ❤️‍🔥 🌊 💫 🙏 🤟 🤙 🔊 👽 🛸 Retweeted IT IS HEAVEN  ☀️ ❤️‍🔥 🌊 💫 🙏 🤟 🤙 🔊 👽 🛸

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        IT IS HEAVEN  ☀️ ❤️‍🔥 🌊 💫 🙏 🤟 🤙 🔊 👽 🛸 @camerongrey
        You know how ppl edit Fortnite vids showing their best kills and then post them so they can make a 💰 and keep playin their games... that’s what the news does with murders/death in real life.
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      1. arm the gormless‏ @Michelgrabowy 27 Oct 2018
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        Conspiracies are a client side algorithms. Not disagreeing about publishing names & making antiheros, but the idea that there is much that can be done for someone who believes every word out of an anchors mouth is designed to spin an elaborate plot can't be helped from that end.

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      1. Colm‏ @ilikenewspapers 27 Oct 2018
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        I agree with this. I live in Toronto and US media coverage of a recent tragic event was eye opening in terms of how stupid and unhelpful much coverage has become (van ramming incident focused on pointless coverage of the perpetrators motivation)

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      1. David Windt‏ @DavidLWindt 27 Oct 2018
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        it's complicated indeedpic.twitter.com/DVaY5RSL2p

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      2. GabrielleLainePeters  🚀‏ @GabrielleNYC 27 Oct 2018
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        @threadreaderapp unroll

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      3. Thread Reader App‏ @threadreaderapp 27 Oct 2018
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        Hi there is your unroll: Thread by @zeynep: "If media can't figure out how to cover terrorism without amplifying the conspiracies (straight-up "debunking" is amplifi […]" https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1056224867748626432.html … Talk to you soon. 🤖

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