Facebook proselytizes International Women's Day—top of my feed. It's real power to choose what gets this placement.pic.twitter.com/mf9qaZUQcF
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Facebook proselytizes International Women's Day—top of my feed. It's real power to choose what gets this placement.pic.twitter.com/mf9qaZUQcF
Don't think "ooh, I like it". Think what it means to decide what kind of content and message to put in front of a billion users. At once.
"We" are fairly blind to how awesome and huge this power is because we tend to like the messages selected. We miss that they are *selected*.
PS. I had written about this in the context of deciding to "activate the safety check") hence define what's worthy. https://medium.com/message/the-politics-of-empathy-and-the-politics-technology-664437b6427 …
Also, when thinking of the power of Facebook (both editorially and algorithmically), also look at this chart.pic.twitter.com/48dcHI0khm
The power of attention is so overlooked. Attention doesn't just convince or inflame. Attention normalizes. Normalization is ... how we live.
It's really noteworthy: Trump—and only Trump—gets to call into TV morning shows. None of the other candidates are allowed this. Why?
.@jeffbigham People have been noting this for a time now. Trump can call in; others have to show up. Someone correct me if otherwise.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Michael Calderone
Has been going on for a while. Only Trump gets to call-in. None of the other candidates allowed to be just phone.https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/707216772005494784 …
zeynep tufekci added,
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