Ad-financed giant platforms are building the infrastructure of authoritarianism. Ad-financed giant platforms are building the infrastructur—https://twitter.com/kantrowitz/status/908426980235681792 …
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alex Kantrowitz
Ad-financed giant platforms are building the infrastructure of authoritarianism. Ad-financed giant platforms are building the infrastructur—https://twitter.com/kantrowitz/status/908426980235681792 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Joe Weisenthal
Yep. Recommender algorithms important for making explicit what is latent—and also in "red-pill" self-radicalization.https://twitter.com/thestalwart/status/908433057975283712 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Julia Angwin
And Facebook can start hiring a well-paid, well-trained workforce in numbers that correspond to TWO billion users.https://twitter.com/juliaangwin/status/908447155463098368 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Silicon Valley triad driving this:
1-Ad-financing (
surveillance & manipulative persuasion);
2-Too few employees;
3-Homogeneous workforce.
zeynep tufekci Retweeted
Absolutely, absolutely. (Implied under too few employees). https://twitter.com/anxiaostudio/status/908517988654972928 …
zeynep tufekci added,
More. No getting around this; these egregious examples are probably lesser pernicious in the spectrum of effects. https://www.buzzfeed.com/alexkantrowitz/google-allowed-advertisers-to-target-jewish-parasite-black …
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Will Oremus
Numbers small BUT you can find & target AND Facebook suggests larger correlates & proxies. You can spread and grow.https://twitter.com/WillOremus/status/908459560192507904 …
zeynep tufekci added,
zeynep tufekci Retweeted Gideon Resnick
And Twitter. Look, the problem is structural. Ad-financing plus workforce model plus willful and/or naïve blindspot.https://twitter.com/GideonResnick/status/908770000080654337 …
zeynep tufekci added,
Cars before the automative industry was dragged (kicking and screaming) into putting in seatbelts. That's where we are. Structural crisis.
also piss
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