This one is more on why Silicon Valley's "insurgent" phase is over, and what the ad-financing model means for it: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/full/10.1162/DAED_a_00366 …
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Followed by "that's not my department", I presume. (By the way: anyone know how to coax Tom Lehrer of retirement?) https://twitter.com/NellieBowles/status/798655906904870912 …
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We either collectively grapple with "what is truth", or things will accelerate in ways few will like.https://twitter.com/papa_fire/status/798609804021342208 …
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"Denver Guardian"—comparable shares as real newspapers—is fake. Stories as: "Hillary email leaker FBI agent killed."https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/798545530955636736 …
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So, a few responses to the most common objections to my "fake news" op-ed: "It wasn't the only factor." Of course not. No such claim. 1/n
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"We had fake news on both sides." That's true, and as best I can tell, it was massively unbalanced both in numbers and in tone. 2/n
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"People want to believe the misinformation." Obviously. Take a group prone to an opinion & drown them in fake news. That has an impact. 2/n
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"This is what talk-radio/Fox etc. was always like." I've listened to that media a long time & perceived a striking difference this year. 3/n
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"There is a lot of gray in truth." No kidding. Longer term thing to grapple with. This election saw avalanche of hard-to-believe fraud. 4/n
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"Information diet through social/peer circles has little to no impact on what people believe." You gotta be kidding? What, then, is culture?
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This wasn't a one-off thing. Decades of building those ideologies & months of pouring gasoline on it with fake news while Facebook watched.
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"People would have voted that way anyway". I don't know. Maybe. That's not the point. This is potent, dangerous stuff. 7/n
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"You're partisan, and just now worried about this." I wrote about it in 2012, using the Obama campaign as example. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html …pic.twitter.com/PdOHMG8nl1
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