Hot damn it's almost like empirical (qualitative) research can give us answers against hot-take headlines. @deaneckles @zeynephttps://twitter.com/achrisafis/status/1070976038581256192 …
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Replying to @alexleavitt @deaneckles
Having done a significant amount of protest interviewing, nothing here is in opposition to the idea that the particular way Facebook operates in particular and social media in general have had significant impacts on protest trajectory. Also, protest interviewing is tricky.
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After the Arab Spring the obsessive interest in the role of technology (which is what I've long studied but what we saw was journalists *and* tech companies swooping in with claims) led to protesters blatantly lying to interviews about tech aspects. (I know because they told me).
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In reality, I'd rarely seen a community so interested in Facebook's algorithms (and also how trending on Twitter worked)—because it affected everything they could and could not do. Social movement people is who I learn about algo changes: they often sense it before it's public.
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Replying to @zeynep @deaneckles
I don't think anybody disagrees with any of the points you made below. Where that disagreement lies is on the absolutist, singular causal claim made in that article.
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Replying to @alexleavitt @deaneckles
I agree it's overwritten, and I wouldn't have phrased it that way. (I negotiated title veto in new gig just to try to avoid exactly this issue: need to go viral leads to over-claimed titles). Still an important dynamic to consider outside of one article's claim/language.
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I'm just pushing back against a widespread idea that "it's just a tool" and all roads would've led to this Paris. The design choices have significant impact (by the way, that applies to WhatsApp too but that's a long, thorny conversation).
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