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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. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      There’s an inherent challenge for studying crisis rumors in “simply” identifying what is a rumor and what isn’t — where veracity itself is dynamic. A) rumors sometimes turn out to be true; B) something false one day may be true later; C) the best info today may be false tomorrow.

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird

      Right but that wasn’t a rumor. It was just sensationally worded.

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    3. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      Sensationally worded, yes. But also the tweet stripped away the context for that number, which can happen when we translate science to social media...

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird

      My concern is that it was a less context-stripped use of R0 than a lot of opeds in NYT, WaPo etc. (I pick on outlets that I write for and that I subscribe as examples to be fair). It was more informative than many out in credible media at the time. (I still didn't like it but...)

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @katestarbird

      I mean the wording plus saying he'd never seen that R0 blah blah disqualified him as an expert in my book, for sure. But in the sea of misinformation we have been swimming in, good amount from traditional sources, it seemed to be a mild example.

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    6. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      That critique makes sense. The explanation is my colleagues have expertise in science literacy and we’re developing a set of research questions at the intersection of their expertise and ours (online mis- and disinformation during crisis). This case sits at the intersection.

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    7. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird @zeynep

      Also, this case got picked up and pushed up into broader conversations by more traditional sources (including journalists). The correction was eventually boosted by journalists as well. It highlights that intersection - how social media influence shapes broader conversations.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird

      Indeed. I’m just hoping that we manage to look at all those intersections—the whole ecology is involved.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep @katestarbird

      (In my particular case, a careful curation from social media was more informative and correct than traditional media. Social media had a lot of nonsense but also much more useful stuff than the traditional media which was full of misinformation. So hard for ordinary people!)

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    10. Kate Starbird‏Verified account @katestarbird 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      You definitely did an amazing job wading through it and synthesizing. Your thread in late-Feb (on why social distancing and other measure would be so important) was one of the best—most frightening but most informative—things I read about the virus.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
      Replying to @katestarbird

      Thank you! One reason I started tweeting/writing was frustration with the traditional media reporting. I used to teach sociology of pandemics, so I was familiar with some of the science and some of the social dynamics, but the failure of informatics hadn't been my thing then.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @katestarbird

          Plus, I was just doing research in Hong Kong which has direct line to China, so I was well-placed to follow the developments. Then watched in horror in February as my local well-educated networks shared "don't panic; go on traveling; what about the flu" articles from trad media.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Mar 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @katestarbird

          So it is such a complicated moment! As was the case in the my Arab Spring research, social media was sometimes more informative and a good runaround the topdown misinformation. But also, a lot of misinformation, too--so how do we disentangle all this? Fascinating moment.

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