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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What a denial of responsibility. If this were true, and Facebook had no influence, it would not be a $400b company. https://twitter.com/MikeIsaac/status/796891604837494784 …
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well, value as an a advertising platform isn't the same as political effects on vote choice. maybe! we don't know.
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@BrendanNyhan We do! From back when they used to publish. Tiny tweak to algorithm impacts mood and boosts turnout by hundreds of thousands.2 replies 1 retweet 13 likes -
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Facebook is now a huge part of social-peer information flow. Decades of research says that's how people form/shift opinions.
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I think Facebook isn't a novel dynamic except it's huge, online and algorithmic. It's still info through social/peer channels.
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