Wrangling over which exact shady site is fake news isn't even arguing over the symptom. This isn't the 20th century. Mechanisms, not lists.
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We should discuss money, algorithmic incentives and structures, demand, ideology, politics. Not lists of sites.. https://twitter.com/xBora/status/802553303246606336 …
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Facebook has plans to nix *all* news from its site if pushed on its responsibilities??! Says
@filloux. https://mondaynote.com/facebooks-walled-wonderland-is-inherently-incompatible-with-news-media-b145e2d0078c …pic.twitter.com/BS6vtT9So0
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Craig Silverman
Huge findings. A third of the people recall seeing "fake news" & about 75%—even more for Trump voters—believe them.https://twitter.com/craigsilverman/status/806311033212125184 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Michael Calderone
These are big findings. This stuff has the reach of evening news; many people see them daily and believe them.https://twitter.com/mlcalderone/status/806143591919677441 …
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Whut? Claim: Zuckerberg wanted to sell FB stock; retain control anyway; go work in government. All at the same time.https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-12-08/facebook-s-investors-criticize-marc-andreessen-for-conflict-of-interest …pic.twitter.com/zBr02SNj7g
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Ben Smith
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@neetzan says it was the top performing story on Facebook for couple of hours yesterday.https://twitter.com/BuzzFeedBen/status/807333337333383168 …zeynep tufekci added,
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This story on Macedonian teens running fake news factories is *wild*.pic.twitter.com/mB8f4Qu2Km
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Roxanne Emadi
Myanmar; South Sudan; elsewhere. Online proliferation of this type of incitement is fueling violence.https://twitter.com/roxanneemadi/status/820683105900101632 …
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radio tv Milles Collines in Rwanda 1994 was a precursor. Now it's distributed thnx to mobile: everyone is a "hate" anchorman
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RTLMC was definitely a precursor... It was also folksy, a lot of call-in, informal... and incitement/coordination center.
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quite right: an already kinda "open" platform with encoded political design but for the radio age. Indeed a precursor.
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Many have the Nazi holocaust as mental model of how genocide happens; most human history, and now, has a different model.
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