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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 11 Aug 2020

      This, from April, may be the platonic ideal of beach misinformation plus victim erasure. It simultaneously erases the reality that poorer/non-white people less able to work from home and isolate are suffering more while *also* using the safest looking beach photo I can imagine.pic.twitter.com/Ri4rXzqEc2

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 12 Aug 2020

      Another terrible entry in the misinformation thread of shame. Yes, younger people are dying more in Florida but not because of the beaches. They're dying because they are "essential" but low-wage workers—also disproportionately non-white. ht @dylanhmorris https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/11/us/virus-young-deaths.html …pic.twitter.com/vSZnUwFQTe

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 15 Aug 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Vinay Prasad, MD MPH  🎙️ 📷

      I have no words for this one. It’s not scolding but it just shows how so much of our actions aren’t really evidence-based.https://twitter.com/vprasadmdmph/status/1294648527956500480 …

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      Vinay Prasad, MD MPH  🎙️ 📷Verified account @VPrasadMDMPH
      Disinfecting a beach chair to stop COVID - almost a poetic picture of the things we were willing to do that don't matter vs. the thing we were not willing to do that do pic.twitter.com/DWriWA6joS
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 17 Aug 2020

      If you're a media outlet, seems you cannot stop from cynically spreading visual misinformation about what's actually high-risk for spreading COVID—not the activity pictured here: many actual victims are poorer, low-wage "essential" workers or nursing homes/prisons. ht @theturnerpic.twitter.com/0jrxJIKxq4

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 18 Aug 2020

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted A Marm Kilpatrick

      This is genuinely infuriating. We should be *encouraging* people to take advantage of the vast open spaces that beaches offer, and provide proper guidance and rules for ancillary activities (like indoors dining!) that are actually unsafe.https://twitter.com/DiseaseEcology/status/1295598186375987203 …

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      A Marm Kilpatrick @DiseaseEcology
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      It doesn't stop w visuals. On NPR yesterday: heat wave forces Californians to beaches where they risk getting infected with COVID. Ugh.
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Aug 2020

      Remarkable! The insistence on visual misinformation knows no boundaries in its targets. This is not harmless: countries and states are still closing beaches and parks: possibly the safest outdoors activities. People’s health will be worse off, plus the alternative is... indoors.pic.twitter.com/EnzK8Y0KYU

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 23 Aug 2020

      Doctors in the front lines keep telling us how low-wage “essential” workers are the majority of victims. Statistic show black and Hispanic people are disproportionately dying, getting infected at work. This? Actively erasing the real victims and misinforming us! ht @Brian_Orakpic.twitter.com/RiHeYdGTYM

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 25 Aug 2020

      The article itself in @bopinion. talks about parties and indoors gatherings. The picture? A safe beach! We don't know of any beach outbreaks. If people are getting infected in activities around beaches (indoor parties or restaurants?) then let's talk about that. ht @sillygwailopic.twitter.com/pwo13UDlgQ

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

      One of the most thoughtful academics on this, @jljcolorado writes a long article making the case for aerosol transmission, *emphasizing* how outdoors is much safer and that's part of the evidence. Then he has to go back and have the picture changed because.. yeah, you guessed it.pic.twitter.com/sCdb6d30CL

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    10. Prof. Jose-Luis Jimenez‏Verified account @jljcolorado 28 Aug 2020
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      My fault too: I was not consulted for the picture, but I also didn't ask to have it changed. Time working on changing now (I did think that it wasn't a good picture, not sure why I didn't ask to change it. Maybe due to limited brain function from being too tired I guess ;-)

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020
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      No, it's not your fault! Writers shouldn't have to act like hawks to stop photo editors from misrepresenting their articles. And it's been months and months of this! A few at the beginning, maybe we chalk it up to misunderstanding. At this point? It's misinformation. 🤬

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        1. Stop-the-MAGAss-Reich‏ @lumiere2016 28 Aug 2020
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          Why the persistence of using the beach photo across so many media though? Click bait for $, time or introduction of bias in public perception?

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        1. Ann Bauer‏ @annbauerwriter 29 Aug 2020
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          I have less recent experience than both of you re publishing norms but 15 yrs of freelancing for dozens of big media says my piece will be headlined and art chosen last minute, around midnight, by a junior editor whose training is mostly in how to generate clicks.

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