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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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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How would you divide up responsibility for the events in DC between Trump, the rioters themselves, others in the GOP (Giuliani), Fox News, our broader media environment, and the online platforms? Who do you think is most responsible?
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@zeynep meet@SusanWojcicki You two are both great. You love this country & for good reason. Even more importantly, you both love and improve our species. I hope you can talk. Much depends on what we all do next.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes, it does need saying ... repeatedly. No one is talking about YouTube’s role in radicalizing these people. Please return to this topic
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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).