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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 9 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      BTW I don't use "elite" to mean educated or cultural celebrities. I mean: finance (old) + tech (new) and—separately—pundit/political class.

      3 replies 18 retweets 84 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Global turbulence far from over. All I can think right now is priorities: protecting vulnerable populations and averting catastrophic wars.

      4 replies 47 retweets 123 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Priorities: I had said this earlier, regardless of winner. Nuclear weapons should be made legally effectively unusable—especially quickly.

      3 replies 30 retweets 94 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      Priorities: I had said this, too, earlier, regardless of winner. The tech-government surveillance industry has to be beaten back.

      4 replies 72 retweets 189 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      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.

      2 replies 40 retweets 103 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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      May seem trivial, but its my corner: tech companies should immediately go to end-to-end encryption and ponder alternative financial models.

      11 replies 218 retweets 397 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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      People long warned about the surveillance-industrial complex (now in new hands) and click-bait algorithms (which fuel misinformation).

      2 replies 157 retweets 336 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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      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

      4 replies 24 retweets 55 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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      No, this doesn't happen in a vacuum—but social media, esp. Facebook & Twitter, wildly amplified this method/message. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/ …pic.twitter.com/6v2EZkFvE7

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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      If I had a magic wand, I'd nix all the either/or analyses—which I believe blinded people to dynamics before the election, and still do now.

      1 reply 10 retweets 42 likes
      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016

      Facebook's algorithm is central to how news & information is consumed in the world today, and no historian will write about 2016 without it.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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          Twitter OTOH was key to the echo chambers that fuel extremism and fool punditry—but also the internal bickering that paralyzes movements.

          3 replies 18 retweets 56 likes
        3. Aurelia Cotta‏ @AureliaCotta 9 Nov 2016
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          the odd part is that both total unemployment, numbers for middle aged white men, is at historic lows. And these are good jobs

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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          2016 was a close election where filter bubbles & algorithmic funneling was weaponized for spreading misinformation. http://www.niemanlab.org/2016/11/the-forces-that-drove-this-elections-media-failure-are-likely-to-get-worse/ …pic.twitter.com/cbgrj1TqFb

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Nov 2016
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          Had many threads last year, but keep coming back to this one from last April. This. is. not. a. historical. anomaly. https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/725378841091428352 …pic.twitter.com/GUF3gHnw1Z

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        2. afauno‏ @afauno 9 Nov 2016
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          imhoalgorithms are plural like powers.. but truly we need more analyses of informational "ecosystems" guiding our prcption & choices

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        3. afauno‏ @afauno 9 Nov 2016
          Replying to @afauno @zeynep

          btw one projct i know researching that: algodiv at cnrs + thx for your putting this up front (as u been dg for years if i rmbr well)

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        2. Jonathan Weber‏ @WeberWest 9 Nov 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          Hi, do you know of research/ data that would show link between media habits & political views? Seems like FB mattered a lot but how?

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        3. Deepa Seetharaman‏Verified account @dseetharaman 9 Nov 2016
          Replying to @WeberWest @zeynep

          I'd also be keen for data on how seeing fake news/conspiracy stories on FB changes users' views/votes.

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        1. nbueno ↙ ↙ ↙  💉  💉  💉‏ @nbueno 9 Nov 2016
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          Are we still going with algorithm and not automaton? It's the automaton that is obeying the algorithm.

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        1. Gahlord Dewald‏ @gahlord 10 Nov 2016
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          good thing no one close to Fb was a prominent funder of any of the campaigns!

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