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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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
They didn't even bother with that. They spend more time deleting women's nipples & nudity.
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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
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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Replying to @zeynep @adamjohnsonNYC
..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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again I would wager its the case but, what I'm saying is, we have nothing that a Trump partisan cld not dismiss as confirmation bias
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At the moment, I think it's important to show Facebook's denial is baseless, and based on it hiding all the data.
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