Mass media trivialized the election, social media inflamed it. But underlying it all: elite failure in responding to global turbulence.https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/796305592176480257 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted James Poniewozik
Mass media trivialized the election, social media inflamed it. But underlying it all: elite failure in responding to global turbulence.https://twitter.com/poniewozik/status/796305592176480257 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Polling failure is interesting but marginal to the underlying story. My April thread on elite failure in face of new forms of participation:pic.twitter.com/PXu8ioC6iY
BTW I don't use "elite" to mean educated or cultural celebrities. I mean: finance (old) + tech (new) and—separately—pundit/political class.
Global turbulence far from over. All I can think right now is priorities: protecting vulnerable populations and averting catastrophic wars.
Priorities: I had said this earlier, regardless of winner. Nuclear weapons should be made legally effectively unusable—especially quickly.
Priorities: I had said this, too, earlier, regardless of winner. The tech-government surveillance industry has to be beaten back.
Difficult moment but: don't think the tools you like now will always be in your hands. Big data, surveillance, nuclear weapons, you name it.
May seem trivial, but its my corner: tech companies should immediately go to end-to-end encryption and ponder alternative financial models.
People long warned about the surveillance-industrial complex (now in new hands) and click-bait algorithms (which fuel misinformation).
Perhaps the most informative chart (2012 elex). Among other things, the level of non-voting among almost all groups shows striking mistrust.pic.twitter.com/0D6ZbxdT2p
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