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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 28 Aug 2020

    I get PR pitches if I were a regular journalist—I'm not. This pitch is from an MD hoping to get interviewed about Musk's "Neuralink".🙄 She provides sample questions, which really are the type of questions journalists ask all the time. They are worse than useless. Thread on why.pic.twitter.com/AZp4hyN5Kc

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

        These questions are not meant to illuminate anything; anyone can blab about "what would be the mental health challenges if we could extend life" and it doesn't mean a thing. It's just time filler and it may be mildly entertaining, but it's not science journalism or journalism.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

        I get a lot of such vague questions, too. "Do you think social media has had a positive influence on social movements"? How can one say anything useful to a question like that? I've realized that these are meant to fit into a "one the one hand, one the other hand" narratives.

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

        I understand many journalists are freelancers; not enough time, no longer on beats where they can invest in the expertise. Increasingly, though, what even is the point of such commodity writing, as a business? The resulting stories read like they are one version ahead of GPT-3.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

        So these kinds of (honestly, common) questions feel like they feed on themselves to bring about the end of relevant journalism; they provide filler material nobody will pay for except for some marginal but ever-decreasing monetization on the AdSense juggernaut.

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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Aug 2020

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted Bernd Porr

        Yeah, "does it work" in any interesting way beyond the mundane research in the field should be the first question before even deciding it's a story at all. (I "typed" with a demo "brainlink" about 10 years ago, womp womp). But that doesn't produce filler.https://twitter.com/BerndPorr/status/1299442159322574850 …

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        Bernd Porr @BerndPorr
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        For me the worst aspect is the (uncritical) suggestion that it all works or will work very soon by talking about the "implications" of it. Now with so much irreproducible or dodgy science esp in neuroscience (see mind reading headband junk) one needs to ask first: does it work?
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      1. Karen Melchior (she/her)‏Verified account @karmel80 28 Aug 2020
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        Is there a line between being wither a genius or insane and an asshole?

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      1. Sensible Shoes  🐀‏ @supervidoqo 28 Aug 2020
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        Getting to the bottom of things

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      1. Neel V. Patel‏Verified account @n_vpatel 28 Aug 2020
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        god these are so cringe-inducing

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      1. 𝙹𝚘𝚑𝚗 𝙵𝚘𝚛𝚍  🚵 ⚡ 🎹‏ @jdftweet 28 Aug 2020
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        I like the 'insanity' question.

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      1. Stanyan Parnassus‏ @diana_over_here 28 Aug 2020
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        I kinda like "who what when where why how" myself, but I have also come to realize that I am old.

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