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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

      In my latest @Wired column, I make a case for verification tech as a crucial anti-censorship and dissent tool. We're undergoing a political+technical transition: falling trust in institutions, doubt as a censorship tool *and* cheap fakes. We should adjust. https://www.wired.com/story/zeynep-tufekci-facts-fake-news-verification/ …pic.twitter.com/vhvY4qt0n2

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

      For the longest time, technologists who wished to support dissent focused on circumvention and anonymity. Those have a place (though often less important than many assume) but verification technologies that are usable, scalable and workable are an urgent unmet need.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

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      That's why the challenge is to build institutional trust along with verification tech. No pure tech way out of this or anything—just like we didn't get here via pure technological advances. It's playing out *this* way because of "this" political moment. https://twitter.com/peltast/status/1097513568474406915 …

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

      As I say in the (too short!) column: this is neither easy nor without trade-offs of varying degrees depending on where things land. What technology can help do is move the trade-off point. It can also make the institution building more viable. Tech can't build the institutions.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

      The key is when our political/technical ecology shifts, so must we. It's like food: you need different adaptive strategies in an era of food glut, cars and corporatized agriculture compared with era of food scarcity, subsistence/small farming and few cars. So with verification.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

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      Absolutely. This crisis manifests in this particular way because of how multi-decade institutional failure (with some spike events like those below) has interacted with new tech and its business model. This isn't nostalgia for any past before it either. https://twitter.com/samthielman/status/1097494272398553088 …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

      Another anology: modern medicine has meant enormous gains but they've become normalized (thus taken for granted) and a mix of institutional overreach, failure and corruption interacting with this new tech environment have opened a robust path to specific forms of misinformation.

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Feb 2019

          You can't combat this with some authoritative doctor talking head on TV to lecture people (won't work anymore) or with nostalgia. We must simultaneously understand how we got here and grapple with the politics of the institutions & the technology. That's what a transition means.

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        1. Kristian no boomer-ish bends‏ @kltblom 18 Feb 2019
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          Maybe verification technology is a good tool but without a change in how we educate our children about how our minds work nothing will change. In the West we are conditioned to follow a narrow set of predetermined authority figures. Critical, independent thinking is not the norm.

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