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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. Zack Beauchamp‏Verified account @zackbeauchamp 9 Sep 2020

      I'm really confused as to why so many people are so confident that Bob Woodward releasing the Trump tape in March would have had some kind of meaningful effect on the quality of the US coronavirus response

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @zackbeauchamp

      Nobody has to be confident to what would happen to defend the public's right to know something so crucial. What I don't understand is why so many journalists are playing guessing games to what would happen. The public isn't a toddler to be managed. This was crucial information.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Sep 2020
      Replying to @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

      I know Woodward had a book to write but he wrote thirteen best-sellers before. Here's a counterfactual: What if he'd conclude the career he started with Watergate by tearing up the book and instead informing the public of crucial information about the once-in-a-century pandemic.

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        2. Yascha Mounk‏Verified account @Yascha_Mounk 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          It's hard for us to know now whether or not releasing this information publicly would have made a difference, and it would have been even harder for him to know then. But given the stakes and the uncertainty, Zeynep's point about his moral responsibility seems *more* compelling.

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        3. Tom Sgouros‏ @tsgouros 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @Yascha_Mounk @zeynep and

          This is really the important point. There is a moral aspect to journalism that is unfashionable to acknowledge. There is a duty to truth and a duty to your community and nation.

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        2. Simplicio‏ @simplicio823 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          In defense of Woodward, his only source for the information was a) an idiot who b) lies all the time. *Now* we know Trump was downplaying the virus, and it was airborne. But for all Woodward knew in Feb, Trump was just confused/lying/etc.

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        3. You Should Have Voted For Jo‏ @colorblindk1d 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @simplicio823 @zeynep and

          Not a single scientific body anywhere was saying it was spreading through the air until mid-March, and even then it was preliminary.

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        2. Donald Hines‏ @DonaldHines 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          He could’ve sold it to Vanity Fair for $5/word.

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        1. Don Grasberger‏ @DonGrasberger 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          I don't see how releasing that one bit would harm book sales, possibly the opposite. Yet everyone seems to assume that's why he held it back.

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        2. Nina Bernstein‏ @NinaBernstein1 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          Presumably there were ground rules, including the promise that the interviews were for a book to be published later, not for contemporary news stories. The political impact is far greater now than it would have been in March. And plenty of reporting showed up Trump’s virus lies.

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        1. Asif Dowla‏ @audowla 9 Sep 2020
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias @zackbeauchamp

          I am wondering the same thing. He should have released the scoop to Washington Post. He is on their payroll, after all.

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