Besides the obvious: Thinking how friends in Sri Lanka had told me how they begged Twitter & Facebook to act on accounts instigating ethnic cleansing but often couldn't even get any response and what a coincidence everyone acts one day after Democrats get a legislative trifecta.
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Oh, hey, also YouTube, too, in case it needs saying. It's amazing how well the Google/YouTube strategy of just doing stuff without waxing philosophical calvinball about it works to avoid attention to their very, very powerful platform.
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Anyway, none of this is easy. Imagine how hard this is for the United States and now imagine how terribly, terribly hard it is for countries where the people have little to no influence on these platforms, and where countering institutions are much weaker to non-existent.
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We're merely inheriting millions—maybe tens of millions—of people who are convinced, utterly convinced, that the vote has been stolen; a broken, divided public sphere; and a catastrophic pandemic response. And we have it *easiest* here; the companies are here.
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I’m blown away at the breadth of your knowledge and contribution. Simply blown away.
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Required reading
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Got it! Thank you Zeynep
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I read it a recently and it remains relevant! I was especially struck by the story of prominent Kurdish officials and pages getting banned w/o explanation until a Facebook exec told you FB relied on a US State Dept list of "terrorist orgs" that included a Kurdish insurgent group.
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I didn’t realize there was a CC version. Thanks!
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And I'm in the middle of your book this week, when suddenly the concepts fly off the page, and into the halls of Congress. Yikes!
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Your book still stands. And your street cred + academic/resume cred. Please Keep up the good fight & thanks
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(No joke: someone got mad at me today for talking about politics rather than vaccines, implying I should stay in my lane and talk about the pandemic. I wanted to say *vaccines are also politics* but I digress).