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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zeynep tufekci Retweeted David Carroll
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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David CarrollVerified account @profcarrollNew report provides startling evidence of a massive Russian propaganda operation using Facebook and fraud sites. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/russian-propaganda-effort-helped-spread-fake-news-during-election-experts-say/2016/11/24/793903b6-8a40-4ca9-b712-716af66098fe_story.html … pic.twitter.com/AhzhT0IykI4 replies 35 retweets 59 likes -
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Pushback from
@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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Of a 13% group of all of US. So about 6% of US—likely more non-voters than voters—also balanced out by non-white people?
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But will find and tweet out cross tabs, too. Given half white, half not, and mostly old I'm skeptical had huge impact+
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..since it appears that 70% of the country is on Facebook, and that is fairly event distributed across income.
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I hear the point. I think some portion of 13% is not huge group. Would love data on voting/info flows and ecology/FB use.
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Even though I disagree, I do think the pushback against lazy reporting & pointing out need for more data is much needed.
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(Also, any crosstabs that I'm missing I should tweet out?)
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