important to define concepts like "fake" and "true" and critically analyze the implications to the recent wave of concern over this
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
Yeah, for sure. But there is a lot of low hanging fruit here as in "This is totally fabricated" and "a fake newspaper."
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They didn't even bother with that. They spend more time deleting women's nipples & nudity.
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Also, "dark" fake news is a bigger problem. You don't even know it's out there. Wrote about it in 2012, inspired by Obama+
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..campaign success; to say: look, the social media/big data method has issues, can go horribly wrong. Fell on deaf ears.
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I agree it's a problem but obvious implication of the piece that Clinton was undermined by fake news remains an assumption, no?
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
It would go against everything we know about humans if an avalanche of "she killed FBI agent" stories from fake newspapers+
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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
that got tens of millions of views, spread through social channels, had no effect. Multi-causal story, of course.
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without comparing it to fake stories about Trump tho it's a hammer without an anvil.
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Replying to @adamjohnsonNYC
And thus Facebook keeps data away from researchers. I think there's enough to assume—unless Facebook steps up & shares data.
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Also, my point really isn't HRC lost because of this—though I believe it was a factor—but the platform amplifies this stuff.
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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
And now they deny they have any influence. Yes, they have influence; by all measures we have fake stuff tilted one way.
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If Facebook says otherwise, it is not that hard for them to collaborate with researchers. This isn't an unknowable.
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