That Amazon & alleged algorithmic suggestion of "bomb-making material" was not solid—and journalism's role should've been to discover that.
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But people are—very understandably—uneasy about the power of algorithmic structures, and thus stories about it get clicks. Hence the threat!
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If journalists are forced to play to obvious algorithmic rewards, they then make themselves irrelevant. That's the real threat algos pose.
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The algorithm has become the enemy Reminds me of the times when the JPG format was considered evil because it facilitated pornography
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To be clear, it’s not the algorithm that’s the enemy. It’s the (self-destructive) current economic model for most journalism.
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Google and facebook would do well to prioritize FACTS and then clicks. Their model is flawed and dangerous
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The fault, dear
@zeynep, is not in our algos, but in ourselves...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@JamesGleick “algorithmic panic pieces”. News at 11.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Yes, this happens. Related, recently met 2 women from
@datasociety who talked abt 'attention hacking' in news & how journos fall into traps
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