"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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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,
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"We can't measure this." We can. Facebook has an excellent data science team: many are academics with integrity. Let them collaborate. 10/10
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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
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"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.
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"Facebook will take flak if it does this." Yes—that's how it fired its already too few human editors. You choose how you go down in history?
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"This can't just be done with humans." No. A lot can be done with a combination of hiring more people, recognizing role and algorithms. 14/n
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"People were already prone to filter-bubbles and misinformation." YES. That's why this is so potent to pour gasoline and a match on it. 15/n
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