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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      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

      2 replies 6 retweets 23 likes
    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      "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

      2 replies 6 retweets 30 likes
    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      "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

      1 reply 9 retweets 22 likes
    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      "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

      1 reply 7 retweets 18 likes
    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
      Replying to @zeynep

      "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

      2 replies 4 retweets 16 likes
    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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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?

      2 replies 11 retweets 45 likes
    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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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.

      1 reply 12 retweets 27 likes
    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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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

      2 replies 6 retweets 14 likes
    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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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

      2 replies 7 retweets 18 likes
    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jason Kint

      Now people are noticing what I wrote in 2012, danger of targeted "hidden messaging" that is never countered. 9/10https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/798873601890025472 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jason KintVerified account @jason_kint
      Considering @JuliaAngwin recent work to expose and change Facebook rules on targeting, see this @JamesHercher https://adexchanger.com/ad-exchange-news/trump-paid-media-strategy-focused-facebook/ … pic.twitter.com/WOPKoslNCE
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016

      "We can't measure this." We can. Facebook has an excellent data science team: many are academics with integrity. Let them collaborate. 10/10

      6:36 AM - 16 Nov 2016
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
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          "There is nothing Facebook can do given complexity." There was an enormous amount of low-hanging fruit Facebook blatantly ignored. 11/n

          1 reply 7 retweets 18 likes
        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          "You're focusing on one thing." Yes, I'm an academic who studies this corner. I do have a many threads & writings on Trump's appeal, too.

          1 reply 3 retweets 13 likes
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        1. Melvin Wevers‏ @melvinwevers 16 Nov 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          I talked to a engineer working at Facebook during a research stay at UCLA and pointed out what the gravity of the filter bubble 1/2

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        2. Melvin Wevers‏ @melvinwevers 16 Nov 2016
          Replying to @zeynep

          could involve. He argue that their research showed no bias in the algo, and claimed that it was not the company’s responsibility. /2

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 16 Nov 2016
          Replying to @melvinwevers

          Their own research showed otherwise, gee. This is classic "I don't care where the rockets come down."

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