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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 22 Nov 2021

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alina Chan

      I can verify this is happening to her replies that have no offensive content whatsoever—but in fact are substantive. It’s likely because people who disagree with her have reported her as “misinformation”—and the automated system is very prone to manipulation like this.https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1462782744635785222 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Alina ChanVerified account @Ayjchan
      My @Twitter replies are being deboosted. For example, often hidden under “Show additional replies, including those that may contain offensive content.” So I’m going to RT some of my own replies and ask for the help of people following me to help counter the Twitter deboosting. https://twitter.com/Ayjchan/status/1462450184005296134 …
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    2. WryWryWry‏ @WryWryWry3 22 Nov 2021
      Replying to @zeynep

      I mean, if you want to have a conversation about metrics and logistics of Twitter, fine. The silver lining is them deboosting a literal grifting conspiracy theorist who has a book to sell.

      3 replies 0 retweets 50 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Nov 2021
      Replying to @WryWryWry3

      The lucrative path in her field would have been to join the in-crowd which let Peter you-know-who lead the whole field by the nose into very troubling corner—the damaging effects of which are yet to play, likely for decades—for almost two years despite obvious, visible problems.

      19 replies 4 retweets 81 likes
    4. André Pineda‏ @drethescientist 22 Nov 2021
      Replying to @zeynep @WryWryWry3

      Please explain how that works. How lucrative is being a postdoc who's not selling hit books for conspiracy theorists? Postdocs get paid very little, and there's no market for an empty book titled "I'm Not A Virologist, Don't Listen To Me". This is anti-science propaganda.

      4 replies 6 retweets 80 likes
    5. André Pineda‏ @drethescientist 22 Nov 2021
      Replying to @drethescientist @zeynep @WryWryWry3

      "All those greedy academic scientists are in on the global conspiracy for their cushy five figure salaries! Only the brave truth tellers sacrifice all that for fame and fortune". This is the lowest level of gross and a really irresponsible abuse of your platform.

      1 reply 3 retweets 53 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Nov 2021
      Replying to @drethescientist @WryWryWry3

      In a world where people "in the field" put their name on "frozen food more likely than anything do to with lab" without evidence, logic or embarrassment, yeah, the field could use some prodding because, as usual, gatekeeping needs to be earned, otherwise it backfires. As it is.

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        2. André Pineda‏ @drethescientist 22 Nov 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @WryWryWry3

          What does that have to do with your claim that academic scientists who aren't publishing lab leak books are somehow following the lucrative path by being part of the conspiracy theory? You made a sensational claim and are now moving the goalposts way back

          1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Nov 2021
          Replying to @drethescientist @WryWryWry3

          Going so much against the grain of her whole field is obviously not the lucrative path—who the heck does a whole PhD and a postdoc and then anticipates a pandemic in which something like this would be a topic and then becomes a "grifter"??? How is this not obvious to many of you?

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 22 Nov 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @drethescientist @WryWryWry3

          Alina Chan, or her book, is the least of the problem the "correct" field faces in this issue of origins, and it is amazing to me that so many cannot see this obvious fact and try to focus on the real problem, which has just begun to play out, and is potentially catastrophic.

          3 replies 4 retweets 47 likes
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        1. Alex Merz‏ @Merz 22 Nov 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @drethescientist @WryWryWry3

          What a radically disingenuous tweet.

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        1. Pal Villanueva‏ @VillanovistPal 23 Nov 2021
          Replying to @zeynep @drethescientist @WryWryWry3

          Well said 👏👏👏👏👏

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