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    zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

    1.If you don't like viral misinfo, fake news & Russian ads—you're just uncomfortable with "ideas". 2.This is what getting played looks like.pic.twitter.com/nrOLJ1krvG

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      2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        First, the idea if you are getting criticized by "both sides", you must be doing something right is nonsense—though touted often by media.

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      3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Second, the right/alt-right playbook has been to criticize Facebook (or some institution) baselessly, and then watch it cave to appease.

        7 replies 132 retweets 542 likes
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      4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        This happened before the election. Facebook got criticized as being anti alt-right (for minimal quality control) so it dropped even that.

        5 replies 86 retweets 373 likes
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      5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        What I see that works on Facebook is intense public pressure—no market competition—or employee discomfort. Right/alt/right does the first.

        3 replies 74 retweets 326 likes
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      6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Through intense public pressure, right/alt-right played Facebook into being passive to deliberate misinfo campaigns before the election.

        4 replies 90 retweets 334 likes
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      7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Expect more of the same, especially as whomever Zuck is listening to is advising him to play the useless & weak media "both sides" playbook.

        5 replies 78 retweets 347 likes
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      8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Point is NOT that Facebook should censor right wing views. Of course not. But it's always been a super helpful platform for Breitbart right.

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      9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Facebook has also been super helpful to Trump campaign, working as their competent embedded ad-agency when they were so disorganized.

        5 replies 129 retweets 394 likes
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      10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        But the right/alt-right knows the naive, liberal weakness: buckle under tiniest criticism and cave even more. So it keeps hitting. Works.

        5 replies 92 retweets 392 likes
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      11. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Facebook, like most trad media, has never managed to grow a backbone—not censorship or bias, but a backbone—and defend ethics & fairness.

        6 replies 118 retweets 449 likes
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      12. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        Hence Facebook keeps getting played. This is the same distortion/stupidity that made mass media cover both candidates badly before election.

        3 replies 68 retweets 334 likes
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      13. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        BS "both sides" arguments and getting played and caving when someone flicks a finger: congrats. FB arrives as a traditional media company.

        9 replies 98 retweets 410 likes
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      14. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 28 Sep 2017

        zeynep tufekci Retweeted CNN International

        So, is Zuck saying people concerned about this are just close-minded people whining about ideas they disagree with?https://twitter.com/cnni/status/913573655615016960 …

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        Fake black activist accounts linked to the Russian government sought to amplify racial tension during the election http://cnn.it/2hAgXUg  pic.twitter.com/IkyukZo7Lu
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