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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. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2021

      Lol "who funded these people" from an article on an otherwise normal site. This is the left version of "Soros funds BLM protests"—an inability to see what's in front of one's nose and a deep desire to find some financier and extraordinary-but-secret competence when there is none.pic.twitter.com/3R1lq37PGi

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    2. Ed Cara‏Verified account @EdCara4 9 Jan 2021
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      The Tea Party movement was a real phenomenon funded by very real rich right wingers. This feels like a very off base criticism.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2021
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      Try creating a movement with such strength that will take over the US congress and arguably the US presidency with just some funding, and you'll see the problem. The movement is real, that's the key. Funding plays a role, but a minor role in things of this scale.

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    4. Ed Cara‏Verified account @EdCara4 9 Jan 2021
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      Right, but one article asking about that role seems fine to me. Elsewhere, people are trying to impeach the politicians who fueled it. If this was the only focus, I'd be more worried.

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2021
      Replying to @EdCara4

      The article was wondering who paid for these people to come to DC (as if that's why they came) and who paid for their allegedly advanced training—very stupidly asserting this is what a trained insurrectionist mob looks like is so dangerous right now that it's deeply alarming.

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2021
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      Such "who funded" thinking is will be very appealing to people who'd rather deny the depth and the scale of the real problem we face and I think it must be brought out, argued and obliterated (with logic and facts and explanations) because we need to respond, not play ourselves.

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        2. Kat Godspell (NOW Unplugged)  🏴 🚩 ✊🏿 🆘‏ @KatGodspell 9 Jan 2021
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          I think we can do both. Follow the money is ALWAYS the path. I highly doubt this was an organic uprising as you seem to think. Not when they have been plotting it for weeks. @SethAbramson has a thread today that lays out a lot of this.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2021
          Replying to @KatGodspell @EdCara4 @SethAbramson

          Plotting for weeks and paid for and well-trained, as the article implies, are not at all synonymous.

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        1. Kat Godspell (NOW Unplugged)  🏴 🚩 ✊🏿 🆘‏ @KatGodspell 9 Jan 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @EdCara4

          But I also totally agree that @TheDemocrats haven’t even begun to wrap their minds around the damage done throughout the country by all the lies that people believe spread by the @GOP and Trump.

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