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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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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

    zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jeff Stein

    Remarkable that a media person can write "Do you think a single person outside the Beltway gives a hoot..." without realizing it means that so many of in media failed so staggeringly in their job that they're perceived as little more than cynical gossips. Institutional failure.https://twitter.com/JStein_WaPo/status/1298595594580250624 …

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    Jeff SteinVerified account @JStein_WaPo
    This paragraph is in Politico Playbook today pic.twitter.com/IBF4JDvNAy
    7:20 AM - 26 Aug 2020
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    • ian morris пигманович 😷 erica mauter 😷 Dirk Beer Chris higgins Truth Sandwich🗹 🥪🇺🇸😷 🥀✂️ Carla Murphy grinding teeth to nothing Alice Asgaard - #BlackLivesMatter
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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        "Do you think any persuadable voter even notices?" That's the job! We can roll our eyes without their help; media's only remaining job is to inform and highlight what's important, not roll their own eyes preemptively. Amazing that so many in media are till blind to this in 2020.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        Also Politico published play-by-play gossip from the Wikileaks hacks daily in 2016—didn't roll their eyes then. I tried to shout this before 2016 and I'll say it again. The condition we face is widespread and profound *elite failure* in our institutions during a tough transition.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        In the run-up to 2016, it was staggering how many individual reporters were consumed looking up their and colleagues names in the Wikileaks hack and snickering on Twitter and then writing pieces about it, instead of actual reporting on important stuff on either Trump or Clinton.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        How many of them learned anything since 2016? Not very hopeful here. In an age where digital technology has eaten up the easy advertising dollars, the only hope traditional media has is to make a case that it's relevant and important or be reduced to virality chasers.

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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Devin Nunes’ Lawyer

        Also, "Persuadable voter" is not some fixed category. If there is no informative reporting; if there is no contextualization; if there is no explanation of what happened, and then people are less likely to be persuaded by that particular issue.https://twitter.com/MarylouMFerrara/status/1298631068753461252?s=20 …

        zeynep tufekci added,

        Devin Nunes’ Lawyer @MarylouMFerrara
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        Yep. The idea that journalism is aimed at “persuadable voters” rather than citizens is pretty disturbing.
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      7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        From my book (written before Trump's win). One key goal of authoritarianism is to produce "resignation, cynicism, and a sense of disempowerment"—not by censoring info (not that easy anymore) but making information irrelevant to action. Some media are handmaidens of exactly this.pic.twitter.com/1pVFSJNDDT

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      8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 26 Aug 2020

        In the run-up to 2016, I spent a lot of time trying to persuade journalists to realize what was happening with the Wikileaks dumps—pinata designed to distract them. Remarkable that four years later, they still can say "we're irrelevant" without noticing. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/05/opinion/what-were-missing-while-we-obsess-over-john-podestas-email.html …pic.twitter.com/6miZploB9z

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      2. MaximusDerrick‏ @misguidedsoul7 26 Aug 2020

        I live the first tweet just giving a "heads-up check it out hot take" that turns out was... By him. I mean, the "white" in "white collar crime" was not supposed to be a mitigating factor

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      1. Kevin Donato‏ @WhatMyWifeYells 26 Aug 2020
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        If only there were some sort of Fourth Estate who could help educate people on why they should care about things they might not otherwise naturally realize are important. Nah.

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