"To fight conspiracy theories, we also don’t just need more fact-checkers. We need to fix the underlying dynamics" http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/opinion/campaign-stops/did-you-hear-the-latest-about-hillary.html …
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2016 election analysts say "social media" as a catch all, when instead we need to articulate specific decisions by various platforms
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eg, facebook trending versus twitter trending have very different impacts on and consequences for the spread of political news
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and there is no clean line between "social" and "mainstream" media. ie, is Trump a TV or a twitter candidate? can make a good case for both
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i like that
@zeynep goes past "social media" in this post and looks at *virality* (not all socmedia is equally viral)1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
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and she also looks past fancy hi-tech and roots this in a decades long increasing distrust in social institutions. the bigger cause!
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the sunday Meet the Press panel all agreed "social media" caused this this mess of an election. theyre half right! needs specificity.
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@zeynep's internet conspiracy piece http://reason.com/blog/2016/09/13/dont-blame-the-internet-for-conspiracy-r … argues the web makes conspiracy more visible, not more believed3 replies 0 retweets 6 likes
We discussed this on Twitter; we seem to both agree that it makes conspiracy subcultures stronger, which is my point.
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Not sure about how to measure susceptibility and belief; but I believe diff is community-formation & push into mainstream.
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