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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 13 Mar 2020

      In 2014, I wrote an article about the Ebola epidemic, saying we *should* panic not because it threatens the US but what it reveals about our failing institutions, and about the next time. So here we are at that next time. A thread about constructive panic. https://medium.com/message/ebola-the-real-reason-everyone-should-panic-889f32740e3e …pic.twitter.com/L22Iaw59G2

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      Back then, too, we had two unproductive reactions. Trump (not president then!) and the ethnonationalist wave presented it as a foreign threat (in stark, racist terms.) Obviously terrible. BUT, also, like now, some chunk of liberal media/establishment lectured people not to panic.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      I tried to explain that there is wrong panic, and there is what I call constructive panic. A potential tsunami is coming, and people are mingling at the beach. Even if you avert that one (so many near-misses, including SARS), you just learned something about the next time.pic.twitter.com/2fShXupITM

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      Unfortunately, many of our national institutions are now controlled by the same people who responded to Ebola with ravaging racism. That is terrible, as we're seeing play out. How catastrophic remains to be seen as the country is now mounting an impressive decentralized response.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      But, old elites too have failed again. We got told that panic was uncalled for. We got lectured about the flu. There was an insinuation that the people who were alarmed shared the racism. Now this point is subtle. That kind of conflation makes the job of racists easier.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      If there is a real problem, and if there is an ethnonationalist response to it, minimizing the problem or telling people that if they're concerned, they must also share that ideology *empowers* the ethnonationalism. The number of historical examples is staggering. Also, duh!

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      After 2016, we simply did not have enough accountability among the old elite about how we got where we got, and their own role in it. 2016 was a symptom. Blame tech, sure! New tech has a part in the problem. But the failure is across the board. Curing symptom doesn't cure cause.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      I will eventually try to write this longer. Many subtle points here, and hard to express well. Just putting it out there. Without accountability and soul-searching, a catastrophe averted for the moment isn't a catastrophe averted in the future. Political debt always comes due.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

      There's been amazing journalism lately. But we desperately need accountability in the *punditry* about the initial dismissals, lectures about not panicking, flu comparisons, the innumeracy, and orienting themselves as responding to the racism but it in a way that empowers it./fin

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

          One add. Anyone who calls this pandemic "a black swan" event isn't just wrong, they are so off-base that they aren't even wrong. Problem isn't people are occasionally wrong (we all are) but that some people are wrong in ways that are destructive to the intellectual tools we need.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020

          As we've seen, even without the Federal government leading, we are capable of springing to action. We had every reason and all evidence needed to spring into action by mid-to-late February. We would have been so much better off now. This isn't just the Trump/gov't failing.

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        2. Derek Willis‏Verified account @derekwillis 13 Mar 2020
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          Mechanisms for punditry accountability would require the kind of sacrifice and change in structural incentives that too many news organizations will not make.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 13 Mar 2020
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          I am just amazed that they don’t see what just happened in the past two-three months. It’s like 2016 redux. They can see the terrible things that are not them, and are indeed terrible, but are utterly blind and uninterested in their own colossal failures.

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        1. Nihari‏ @NihariFan 13 Mar 2020
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          Frontpage stories given to Peter Baker, Haberman etc doing horse race, narrative crap as always. The editorial direction will never change

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        1. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan 13 Mar 2020
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          Bezos, Buffett and Dimon claimed 2 years ago they were going to "solve health care". The whole thing was a publicity stunt and a failure of corrupt media:https://www.cnbc.com/2018/06/20/buffett-bezos-dimon-appoint-dr-atul-gawande-as-ceo-of-their-newly-formed-health-care-company.html …

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        1. Grammar Perkasa‏ @grammar_perkasa 14 Mar 2020
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          I would also love some accountability for the cult of management consulting which has made the world's supply chains so lean, & inventories so small, that we have zero resilience against an emergency or surge in demand

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