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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Feb 2020

      New piece. Hear me out. What if Xi Jinping didn't even *know* of key details of the coronavirus outbreak until it was too late? What if his authoritarian blindspot was *worsened* by China's use of surveillance and censorship technology? https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …pic.twitter.com/Zof3Ct6taI

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Feb 2020

      Yes, it's a bold claim. Do convince me otherwise! China's authoritarianism is important, not just because of the billion-plus who live there—look how it's now mishandled its way into what almost certainly looks like a serious pandemic. (And it may well reshape the US, too. Soon).

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Feb 2020

      People often misunderstand what technology does for authoritarianism and that's there is more than one path. The way China handled its digital public sphere *before* Xi made it more responsive and resilient. Xi turned back to the Orwellian lane—repressive but brittle. So we see.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Feb 2020

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      Yep. Surveillance and repression are often an obstacle to acquiring healthy information and addressing problems. Seems paradoxical but surveillance and knowledge are often at odds. https://twitter.com/ketonkakkar/status/1231236670630088704 …

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Feb 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted BNO Newsroom

      Speaking of blindness to reality. With so many new cases in South Korea, Iran and Italy, the likelihood of containment is very small. This coronavirus will stress all infrastructure. Are we ready? We may be discussing Medicare for at least all over 50 long before the election.https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1231391048221499393 …

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      BNO NewsroomVerified account @BNODesk
      Summary of South Korea's update: - 123 new cases, 2 new deaths - 75 new cases linked to church - 48 others with unknown link - Total: 556 cases, 4 deaths - 6,039 people being tested
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 24 Feb 2020

      ICYMI, this weekend I wrote that it would have been relatively easy for China to contain COVID-19 early on, but authoritarianism, including their use of tech surveillance, made it harder—and perhaps Xi Jinping didn't know all the details until too late.https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Josh Chin

      A new excellent report out of WSJ (whose reporters were expelled from China recently) that reinforces this: China chose to hide and cover-up human-to-human transmission till things got out of hand. That's the reason we have the pandemic in the first place.https://twitter.com/joshchin/status/1235985382644150273 …

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      Josh ChinVerified account @joshchin
      This timeline gives a sense of how misstep after misstep fed the virus to the point that it required draconian measures. Critical to understand as the U.S. bumbles through its own response: pic.twitter.com/pRut4dNijB
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2020

      The Chinese government is trying to cover-up how their own initial cover-up led to this pandemic in the first place. Yes, US and others are bungling it in their own way. Please remember Chinese health workers who put everything on the line to warn us before letting that happen.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jonathan Cheng

      Thread with timeline. By the end of December, there was ample evidence of human-to-human transmission of a SARS type virus in Wuhan. Chinese authorities lied and *punished* the doctors who were desparately trying to act. IT COULD HAVE BEEN CONTAINED THEN.https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1236186210533425152 …

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      Jonathan ChengVerified account @JChengWSJ
      Despite ample evidence to the contrary, the Wuhan branch of China's National Health Commission said Dec. 31 that they had "not found any obvious human-to-human transmission or infection of medical staff…The disease is preventable and controllable.” https://on.wsj.com/2VRb2fy 
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2020

          It would be deeply disturbing if media & others erased the profound personal sacrifices of Chinese whistleblower health care workers, some of whom died fighting this virus, by letting the Chinese government off the hook. Do these people not exist? Do they not count? 😡🤬😢

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted

          See thread. Please don’t erase these brave Chinese doctors and whistleblowers by absolving the Chinese leadership of culpability for the pandemic they unleashed on the world through their early cover-up. https://twitter.com/yiqinfu/status/1237222757940596739 …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Stephen Dziedzic

          Letting the Chinese government erase its culpability in unleashing this pandemic—as it is clearly trying to do— means erasing the massive sacrifices of whistleblower medical workers in Wuhan. They put everything on line to warn us and were shut down.https://twitter.com/stephendziedzic/status/1237568007884255233 …

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          Stephen DziedzicVerified account @stephendziedzic
          Confirmation. Investigative piece in French daily La Croix International says Chinese embassies around the world were issued confidential instructions to "raise doubts" about the genesis of coronavirus and suggest it might have come to China from abroad https://bitterwinter.org/de-sinicizing-the-virus-how-ccp-propaganda-is-rewriting-history/ …
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Yanzhong Huang

          Wow. In February, I wrote a piece outlining that scenario which threaded together a plausible scenario that fit known evidence/authoritarianism. Now China's best investigative outlet on the pandemic says that may be what happened. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ …https://twitter.com/YanzhongHuang/status/1249005171436388352 …

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          Yanzhong Huang @YanzhongHuang
          According to Caixin, central government was not informed about the human to human transmission of COVID-19 until the night of Jan. 19. pic.twitter.com/bllmmABfk6
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Apr 2020

          Wow. AP says Wuhan authorities covered up *up the chain as well* until Jan 14th (clearly spreading human-to-human by then). Then, only after a Thailand case, top leadership was forced to consider the possibility. Still unclear what happened till Jan 20th. https://twitter.com/gerryshih/status/1250318531050131461 …pic.twitter.com/dxgzww5TNU

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 May 2020

          Updating my February 22 piece with latest information. Top Chinese scientist Dr. Zhong Nanshan says that Wuhan authorities did cover up information about the epidemic. "The local authorities, they didn't like to tell the truth at that time," Zhong said. https://edition.cnn.com/2020/05/16/asia/zhong-nanshan-coronavirus-intl-hnk/index.html …pic.twitter.com/B1pDQ03ibd

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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 4 Jun 2020

          Updating thread with new details on how Chinese authorities blocked crucial information. But note: once again, Chinese scientists defied the authorities. A professor published the SARS-CoV-2 genomic sequence without authorization. His lab was shuttered. https://apnews.com/3c061794970661042b18d5aeaaed9fae …pic.twitter.com/QFjqDktHpQ

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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Aug 2020

          Well. US intelligence agencies have reportedly concluded the same thing as my February article on top of this thread: that local Wuhan officials kept central Chinese government in the dark, well into mid-January. Authoritarians encourage lying to them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/19/world/asia/china-coronavirus-beijing-trump.html …pic.twitter.com/wuGKhIJDoo

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        1. Wordy McWordinson‏ @McWordinson 10 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          They fact that they let everyone move around before LYN (!!!), And even after, when things started to get dire, were fine to let conspiracies about "the US trying to make the gov look bad", even tho it prevented particularly older folks fro. Taking necessary precautions....

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        1. Pit Schultz‏ @pitsch 10 Mar 2020
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          how about learning how to prepare the us public and health infrastructure according to the global risk instead of playing the blame game of psyop cold war rethorics?

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