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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 19 Mar 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jamie Bartlett

      How will this apply to discussing advice from authorities that we believe are not supported by evidence? Can we contradict Trump? I just wrote a NYT op-ed arguing for universal mask wearing and got tons of medical people contacting me privately to say thank you. Do I get banned?https://twitter.com/JamieJBartlett/status/1240551534523559937 …

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      Jamie BartlettVerified account @JamieJBartlett
      Twitter has hugely expanded its definition of ‘harm’ and will remove misinformation about #COVID19, including false diagnostic advice, claims that incite panic, claims that incite behaviour to benefit a third party, denial of established science & more. https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/An-update-on-our-continuity-strategy-during-COVID-19.html … pic.twitter.com/JXnj2WhUeA
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

      I applaud efforts at stopping harmful misinformation, but, I'm sorry but there is a lot of top-down misinformation as well. Who's judging? We had months of many journalists from high-prestige sources arguing what-about-the-flu with those of us who were trying to raise the alarm.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

      Folks, think about the last two months. Rethink assumptions. Misinformation is not just the problem of "other" people who believe, say, in aromatherapy for COVID-19. There are many kinds of misinformation. We had massive amounts of top-down misinformation from "credible" sources.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

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          What if I didn't have access to the NYT? I don't think people have digested the depth of dis/misinformation that was out there for months. Some societies leapt to action despite government intransigience—ours did not. There are multiple failures here. https://twitter.com/mykfmn/status/1240663099553742849 …

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          I wish, wish, wish the problem was "easy-to-identify misinformation there" versus "credible authorities here". If that were the problem, we wouldn't be facing all this. The authorities have to learn how to earn credibility, but first, they have to see & admit their own problems.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          Anyway lemme get back to trying to write more of this long-form.

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Just putting the mask oped and thread with the debate here. I was scared to write this. I expected big pushback. Instead, I got medical folks from all over contacting me privately and thanking me for saying the obvious—in contradiction to CDC and WHO line.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1239903421970501640 …

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          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          For the @nytimes, I wrote about why health authorities telling people they didn't need masks, and, besides they wouldn't wear them right, misfired and maybe even fueled hoarding. There will be many painful truths, and we need to learn to talk about them. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/17/opinion/coronavirus-face-masks.html … pic.twitter.com/vBhEbS2rJk
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted miroirdufou

          Yep. Part of the reason that the pandemic has engulfed Europe, and is now creeping up in the United States is the authorities *and* a substantial chunks of "credible" media failed us. It's a terrible situation. Let's not pretend otherwise.https://twitter.com/miroirdufou/status/1240670344580603904 …

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          miroirdufou @miroirdufou
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          In the UK, the government picked a strategy that anyone with basic mathematical ability and a bit of common sense could see was insanely dangerous. It was absolutely necessary to be able to contest it. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexwickham/coronavirus-uk-strategy-deaths …
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

          Here's my January 29 thread. By then, we knew what we needed to know to IMMEDIATELY act. We knew "what about the flu" was plain stupid—but many in media kept telling us that. We knew of asymptomatic transmission—thus universal mask wearing was smart. Yet.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1222652819179634688 …

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          zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
          Significant #nCoV2019 paper *just* out at @NEJM. Bad news, which we kinda knew, is there is sustained human-to-human transmission. Goodish news: R0 estimate is 2.2, lower than SARS. But won't be easier to contain because 2020 is more connected than 2003. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2001316 …
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Mar 2020

          January 29. China swung from denial and censorship to *massive* action. NEJM paper comes out with everything we need to know. For the next month, Western governments practically sit on their hands, pundits lecture us about the flu, and CDC/WHO says don't wear masks. Yeah, angry.pic.twitter.com/reQFIbzjAw

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        1. Alfie‏ @WndlB 19 Mar 2020
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          For example, chloroquine has toxicity problems, per some medical tweets.

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        1. Levity‏ @Al_levity 19 Mar 2020
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          We knew from January that there was a new virus with R0>1 present in Europe. We knew China sacrificed one month worth of its economy to fight this ‘evil’. Hard to need more information.

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        1. 2 pillows is enough  🌉  🚱‏ @notkavi 19 Mar 2020
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          I'm pretty sure Twitter means just the aromatherapy though. Like there's some very obviously false stuff, the people who say the same thing over and over again in every crisis. Those people seem pretty clearly the target?

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