Priorities: I had said this, too, earlier, regardless of winner. The tech-government surveillance industry has to be beaten back.
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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.
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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.
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People long warned about the surveillance-industrial complex (now in new hands) and click-bait algorithms (which fuel misinformation).
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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
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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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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.
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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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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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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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Look, this isn't just making things visible. The more you see things, the more they are reinforced. This mattered. https://twitter.com/SuePGardner/status/796441937918115840 …
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FB algorithms have clear bents: filter-bubble, clicky or quarrelsome content. Yes, it builds on human tendencies. It greatly amplifies them.
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Twitter's own (lack of) policies about harassment & extreme racism also played a role in all this. It's all complex, but this is part of it.
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