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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 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
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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 …

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      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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      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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        1. 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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        1. No Shoes Mon‏ @NoShoesMon 26 Aug 2020
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          Thank youpic.twitter.com/4hC1tFOyJy

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        1. Hollywood DFPD‏ @thedrakesays 26 Aug 2020
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          Literally: https://twitter.com/becingber/status/1298626564083658753?s=21 …

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        1. Thirsty Cruz. Big E. Lets Ski.‏ @CruzThirsty 26 Aug 2020
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          This! Never underestimate the collective social psyche. It's truly one of the worst of human traits, when manipulated for bad

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        1. TD‏ @NotPhollowing 26 Aug 2020
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          Trump censors information by simply creating an overwhelming amount of chaos that nothing gets followed in it's entirety. Every day he creates 3-4 new controversies, and the media moves on. Its a zebra herd approach to corruption.pic.twitter.com/6Phw7CsPqi

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        1. Mont'au Devil an official Wokehammer member.‏ @TauMan63621928 27 Aug 2020
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          "The point is that both Hitler and Stalin held out promises of stability in order to hide their intention of creating a state of permanent instability." -- Hannah Arndet, The Origins of Totalitarianism

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        1. Aron Roberts‏ @aronro 11 Apr 2021
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          Great minds think alike? Although, in this excerpt from your book, you've laid out far more routes for "making information irrelevant to action" than (just) ubiquitous lies ...https://twitter.com/aronro/status/1329121913566683136 …

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          Arguably worse than even a censored or shut down press. At least that's understandable, and can be fought more clearly. But a world of seemingly ubiquitous lies, where converging on some common set of facts is near impossible? Per Hannah Arendt (1974) https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-from-an-interview/ … pic.twitter.com/5SUO1bvqZr
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