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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 26 May 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Deepa Seetharaman

      Facebook's own researchers found that “64% of all extremist group joins are due to our recommendation tools" and that “our recommendation systems grow the problem.” Facebook VP for policy Joel Kaplan (known for throwing a party for Kavanaugh after confirmation) nixed any action.https://twitter.com/dseetharaman/status/1265312209602674688 …

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      Deepa SeetharamanVerified account @dseetharaman
      New from @JeffHorwitz & me: Facebook spent years studying the its role in polarization, according to sources and internal documents. One internal slide laid out the issue like so. ”Our algorithms exploit the human brain's attraction to divisiveness.” https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-knows-it-encourages-division-top-executives-nixed-solutions-11590507499?mod=searchresults&page=1&pos=1 …
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 May 2020

      "Our algorithms exploit the human brain’s attraction to divisiveness". Please note that independent researchers have been pointing out this for years, but of course only Facebook has the data and the tools internally to have actually study this. Independent researchers don't.pic.twitter.com/66LRDWJ2Ae

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        1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 May 2020

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Nina Jankowicz

          Follow-up. Researcher joins an "alternate health" group of 70k members and Facebook's algorithm quickly recommends that she join a white supremacist group, or Qanon (the ones that show up with guns to pizza parlors fans, or an anti-vax/"plandemic" group.https://twitter.com/wiczipedia/status/1265629272988954625 …

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          Nina JankowiczVerified account @wiczipedia
          In case you are still doubting how Facebook Groups suggestions work, a quick case study: 1. Search for "alternative health." Choose a group with over 70k members. pic.twitter.com/GPRGhdEphn
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        1. Dagger Brown‏ @DCDaggerBrown 26 May 2020
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          Holy crap. This is an outrage. Shows that Silicon Valley knows best about the horrible ways they are exploiting all of us. We think we know but we have no idea.

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        2. P.J. Hinton‏ @HttpStatus402 26 May 2020
          Replying to @zeynep

          You notice that when Facebook runs its TV ads, it for warm-and-fuzzy things like dog groups, kazoo enthusiasts, etc. It’s never the alt right red pill pushers or the antivaxxers, but that’s where the money is.

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        3. P.J. Hinton‏ @HttpStatus402 26 Jul 2020
          Replying to @HttpStatus402 @zeynep

          See also: If you’re not terrified about Facebook, you haven’t been paying attention | Carole Cadwalladr https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/26/with-facebook-we-are-already-through-the-looking-glass?CMP=share_btn_tw … #DeleteFacebook

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        1. Karl-Heinz Remmers‏ @phdsun 26 May 2020
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          So- what to do now?

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        1. Rakesh Bhandari‏ @postdiscipline 26 May 2020
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          It may be that @samuelmoyn's and others' effort to normalize Trump as in the American tradition--despite Buchanan not being able to get out of the primary on the same platform--may overlook the disfiguration of politics by new social media. We know little due to proprietary data

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        2. Rory Nussbaumer‏ @RoryNussbaumer 27 May 2020
          Replying to @timraisinbrand @zeynep @AHiddyCBC

          I’m finding that the awareness of social media combined with false news is new - a very new trend <5yrs - once people start growing up with it more we will see people being more cognizant of astroturfing/misinformation. our current generations are doomed though. 🤣

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        2. Melissa Jo Peltier‏Verified account @MelissaJPeltier 26 May 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @Delavegalaw

          Zuckerberg is a very bad actor. Very bad.

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        3. Florida RN‏ @ER__Nurse 26 May 2020
          Replying to @MelissaJPeltier @bfelice and

          #CloseTheBookOnFacebook

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