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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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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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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Already six figure shares; hundreds of thousands of if not millions of people may see this. Non-stop pre-election.https://twitter.com/JimDalrympleII/status/801171416963956736 …
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Ohai. NYT says to get into China, Facebook developing tools so some posts (political ones?) *never* appear in feeds. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/22/technology/facebook-censorship-tool-china.html …pic.twitter.com/YEeovPJESl
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So, blatantly fake news is too hard a problem for Facebook, but letting a third-party Chinese company disappear real news in China is okay?
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I'm trying to explain news headlines of 2016 to say, 2010, and failing badly.https://twitter.com/profcarroll/status/801965541309239296 …
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@mysocnet &@eszter—always worth reading. But see Pew data below: Trump base as much on FB as anyone. http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/307438-stop-blaming-facebook-for-trumps-election-win …pic.twitter.com/wHlRghSh7q
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And the 13% of Americans who aren't online? Unclear if they vote at all AND more likely to be Black of Hispanic, not white. They are 65+.pic.twitter.com/gRiXR0ooT4
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