Starting new thread on the problem of the misinformation ecology and social media—especially Facebook. Old discussion with many links below.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/798511812580900864 …
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Starting new thread on the problem of the misinformation ecology and social media—especially Facebook. Old discussion with many links below.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/798511812580900864 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Great on economic & viral infrastructure on Facebook. Letting fake news thrive pushes everyone else to to be worse. https://www.buzzfeed.com/craigsilverman/conservative-page-owners-in-fake-news-panic …pic.twitter.com/N7aIEG2qeN
Many layers to discussion. You might enjoy book Terms of Use, which foresaw possibilities here.
Yes—I've been writing about this stuff for many years as well. It's just now becoming mainstream-ish in the US to discuss it.
Good to hear. I'm curious what you know of Cambridge Analytica and similar forms in the shadows.
Public/short version in 2012: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/17/opinion/beware-the-big-data-campaign.html … Lengthy academic 2014 overview on exactly this: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4901/4097 …
The long one also tackles why this isn't the same-old, same-old: http://firstmonday.org/article/view/4901/4097 …
How the ad-financing model plus network effects feeds into all this going forward: http://www.mitpressjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1162/DAED_a_00366?journalCode=daed …
Anyway, I believe this is a significant historical transition; effects are global; dangers are deep and scary.
thanks for all this background. I've got my reading cut out for me! :)
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