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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted ChristineKaratnytsky
I didn't run it but 1-It was response to retaliatory climate. 2-Earmarked for arson damage. 3-AFAIK, still not sent.https://twitter.com/ckaratnytsky/status/796450510836559874 …
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^IOW I get all the disagreements but what should have been a tactical discussion of a small matter turned into a mass-vilification campaign.
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^I am local and there was very real, concrete signs of retaliatory violence. I suggested a clean-up, or any kind of gesture—to dampen cycle.
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^Many local people fighting stuff in the frontlines I know asked me to thank the organizers—it helped them recruit, register, organize.
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^Anyway, as example of how social media hinders discussion: it all ended with tons of non-local people yelling at me that I was a Nazi. ?!
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Anyway, if matters of little weight quickly turn into "you're a Nazi!" by thousands of people—then movements cannot strategize. /end derail
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