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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 30 Oct 2020

    What does the brouhaha over media and the Hunter Biden allegations tell us? First, it's about attention, not speech. Second, I'm baffled that we're not paying attention to the blatant blackmail. Why aren't we discussing that? I wrote about it for @insight. https://zeynep.substack.com/p/ignoringblackmail …pic.twitter.com/akJ16IkzGb

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Oct 2020

        I mean, look. Like many previous hacks, the Hunter Biden effort is a blatant attempt at blackmail, right in front of our eyes. How is this not obvious, and not a major story?

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Oct 2020

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        As things stand, we don't truly know the provenance of the Biden emails. Could be the laptop as claimed, could be an iCloud hack... It's not that relevant to the point I'm making, tough. https://twitter.com/Noorvikdog/status/1322236782562496513 …

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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 30 Oct 2020

        There is simply no way to have a reasonably functioning politics if anyone running for major office faces a *personal* threat to their family, weeks before an election, with nary an alarm from us. That's true along with this: family nepotism deserves investigation. Of course.

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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Oct 2020

        I don't understand how if the alleging party refuses to cooperate with any attempt to authenticate, the complaint can be "why isn't the media pushing the other party harder to authenticate?" especially given the obvious personal blackmail aspect. https://twitter.com/NBCJoshua/status/1322546159236337664 …pic.twitter.com/uGiZUJ9aLH

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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 31 Oct 2020

        "We'll drop this two weeks before the election despite having it for months, refuse to cooperate with any independent investigation, announce in the first 'journalistic' article that we have sex and drug tapes of your son... "🙄 Of course media shouldn't be blackmail-by-proxy.

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      1. MD‏ @mikeydoubled 30 Oct 2020
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        I Keep waiting for all the “Gawker deserved it” people to jump in to Hunter’s protection but it seems they’re all on the other side of this one 🤔

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      1. sea dawg‏ @sanfordcw 30 Oct 2020
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        You are fast becoming my fav twitter follow!

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      2. Ann Bauer‏ @annbauerwriter 30 Oct 2020
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        The definition of blackmail is: demand money or another benefit from (someone) in return for not revealing compromising or damaging information about them I don't see how this applies. Who is demanding money/benefit? What part of the Hunter Biden story has not been revealed?

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      3. Ann Bauer‏ @annbauerwriter 30 Oct 2020
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        The highlighted section above indicates that the NY Post is participating in the blackmailing, which is even more confusing for me. The Post is the entity that's revealing the information - not withholding - and they are making no monetary demand (that I know of)

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      1. Mike Bingaman‏ @bingaman 30 Oct 2020
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        21st century?pic.twitter.com/xtaUGVMqm1

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