"It wasn't just Facebook." Of course not. "It has antecedents, history." Yes—otherwise it wouldn't work. "It's more complex." Everything is.
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People made atrocious stuff up for ad $$ or ideology and reached much of the electorate every day through social contacts. Not. Talk. Radio.
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People cite "media effects" research. This isn't that. This doesn't work like TV ads. It's socialization—the most powerful shaper of humans.
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Media flunks this. But they don't reach this group & media has weak effects. Socialization—Facebook—has big effects. https://twitter.com/canitti/status/801060533935874049 …
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Great investigation of how Facebook deliberately engineered itself so it amplifies misinformation & echo chambers. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/2016-election-blew-up-in-facebooks-face …pic.twitter.com/BV6Ho3el0M
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Reporters still looking at this: overlooked, significant story is how Facebook's ad targeting facilities play into this. I think a big deal.
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Yep. Misinformation on social media long had dangerous impacts in other countries; people had been pleading. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/18/technology/fake-news-on-facebook-in-foreign-elections-thats-not-new.html …pic.twitter.com/GGc2cT4lR0
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Slim Amamou
Country after country, we've heard such dire calls. It only got noticed after it got big in US.https://twitter.com/slim404/status/801130085210144768 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Slim Amamou
Saw this in Turkey—but admittedly after FB cracked down on it for one huge case. But this goes on a lot, too.https://twitter.com/slim404/status/801130670391070720 …
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btw, Islamists have an internationalized troll army. I already caught Turkish and Moroccans pretending to be Tunisians in my net ;)
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Wouldn't language give people away? The world is ... weird.
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they have trolls speaking english and french. The turkish one was speaking english
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