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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. Tom Gara‏Verified account @tomgara 21 Apr 2020

      Tom Gara Retweeted Charlie Warzel

      These are two very separate schools of corona contrarian that don't really overlap much, but what's notable to me is how much they both focus on being extremely mad at the same media outlets, rather than each other.https://twitter.com/cwarzel/status/1252673771799900160 …

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      Charlie WarzelVerified account @cwarzel
      genuinely curious what appropriate media coverage would look like if you're a coronavirus contrarian who believes press did not take things seriously enough early on but has overplayed the hand immensely, stoking fear and helping to prompt the lockdowns that destroyed economy
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    2. Tom Gara‏Verified account @tomgara 21 Apr 2020

      Here's a small example of this (and I'm a Balaji fan, this is not anti-Balaji content!) - someone from the "things weren't taken seriously seriously enough" faction quoting a loopy anti-vax truther, in service of hitting at their common enemy, the WHOpic.twitter.com/eYDVQ6miMo

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Apr 2020
      Replying to @tomgara

      I had to quote the same guy, because I couldn't find another copy of that video. 😬 Am looking though. If it had not been a video, I'd have screenshotted. Yeah, strang.

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    4. Tom Gara‏Verified account @tomgara 21 Apr 2020
      Replying to @zeynep

      Wasn't really going at anyone for RT'ing him, more just this strange position media and various institutions are in re incoming fire from both directions

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Apr 2020
      Replying to @tomgara

      That's generally true, though, we just don't always notice them. There isn't that much public attention on them and they don't have a moment like this, because the traditional authorities screwed up in a visible way.

      3:42 PM - 21 Apr 2020
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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Apr 2020
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          But key here is antivaxxers shouldn't be the sole flagbearers of the basic, obvious truth that WHO isn't The Oracle That Must Never Be Contradicted; but especially since anti-vaccination clickbait is a genuine health hazard. Nihilism to the difference isn't sound epistemology.

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        1. Tom Gara‏Verified account @tomgara 21 Apr 2020
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          I think the entire universe of people saying media is causing unnecesssary panic / not telling the truth about lockdowns not working etc is huge and super influential and generally not pushed back against hard enough by people saying media doesn’t take it seriously enough etc

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