Wait what? Facebook "Oversight Board" is giving "embargoed" access of its *full* decisions to individual writers? Like a single person? Is that so? No. Not okay. (Not naming the person because it doesn't mean she did something wrong). But, no, no, no. We aren't their PR agents.
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Replying to @mathewi
Unless it's almost everyone (i.e. journalists/writers who write on this topic) that group is being "groomed" and this should be treated like the terrible PR exercise it is. Incentives matter, and this is basically how independent thinking is destroyed. FB did this with data, too.
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I understand your point, and agree, but this is how Facebook operates and has operated even with journalists. And not just them, but virtually every tech company. Some get embargoes and others don't. Playing favorites is systemic.
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First, has anyone found out how many people did get embargoed release? Second, let's look at all the publications that accept embargoes, namely every newspaper alive.
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I'd ask! In fact, we should learn from this episode and figure out how to resist it as a group. We know how it all works and how the incentives work. Already such a lopsided situation. From my perspective, it's on Facebook to tell us they provide early access to a *broad* group.
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I just asked both the Board and Facebook for the facts. BTW, you write for the
@NYTimes. It is our paragon. It accepts embargoes. It also issues them itself. Embargoes are and have been since I entered journalism frequent and even SOP.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
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Yeah, access journalism is a broad practice and has been terrible in its consequences when practiced by the powerful in a targeted way. Hence my alarm in seeing the Oversight board step into that space. It requires immediate and strong resistance.
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Replying to @zeynep @BostonJoan and
Many journalists will disagree with you. Without time to write, they would be required by competitive pressure to produce articles too quickly: the quick, hot take. Should academics be at a disadvantage vis-a-vis journalists then in receiving information and time?
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I can't believe you're repeating this. IT'S FINE IF A BROAD GROUP GETS THE EMBARGOED INFORMATION. We're alarmed because we might be seeing an attempt to groom for a particular type of coverage.
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Replying to @zeynep @BostonJoan and
Do you have the numbers? I've asked. We'll see.
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The question you ask is legitimate. But from many people, it was not stated as a question but instead an accusation against a colleague. I am glad to see many rise to her defense.
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