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Complex systems, wicked problems. Society, technology, science and more. @UNC professor. @NYTimes columnist. My newsletter is @insight: http://www.theinsight.org 

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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      Life under pay-for-play ads and virality-fueling algorithms on platforms. Horrific anti-refugee sentiment in US has arisen based on lies.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/920638086740152320 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Facebook and Google helped them better target fear-mongering videos showing "France and Germany overrun by sharia law"—to get the ad money. https://twitter.com/liamdenning/status/920601343664054272 …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

      This isn't about "free speech" at all. No suggestion of jailing or even censoring hate-mongers. It's about money, attention & amplification.

      2 replies 26 retweets 71 likes
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

      "Mass media also does it." Sure but that's public, counterable & much less effective. That's why all the ad money goes to Google & Facebook.

      1 reply 10 retweets 48 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

      Either Facebook & Google are giant cons at ~half-trillion market caps, or they effectively help hate-mongers victimize the most vulnerable.

      6:20 AM - 19 Oct 2017
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          "What should be done?" Good question. I'll be first to say it's VERY thorny, but to get somewhere, let's first acknowledge all the obvious.

          1 reply 4 retweets 36 likes
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          Consequences for not dealing with this will be horrible. Or we can shrug and listen to Tom Lehrer. "Nazi schmazi..."http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5V7me25aNtI …

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Greg Walmart store 0069

          I'd say Germany is familiar with consequences of new communication tech fueling hate-mongering & fascist propaganda.https://twitter.com/MestizoBobbyHil/status/921002809935396864 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Greg Walmart store 0069 @MestizoBobbyHil
          Replying to @zeynep
          So Germany has not faced severe consequences based on thier influx of refugees?
          3 replies 5 retweets 44 likes
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          Look, there's a reason scholars of history & communication tech are sounding loud alarms. They have been powerful reshapers of our world.

          1 reply 24 retweets 56 likes
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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          Isn't there anything good about this tech? Of course there is. I wrote a whole book about some of it. Doesn't cancel out the grave danger.

          1 reply 6 retweets 39 likes
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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted The Hill

          This was a popular account. I watched as it spread enormous lies abut black people and refugees before the election.https://twitter.com/thehill/status/920842704753496065 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          The HillVerified account @thehill
          Popular Twitter account claiming to belong to Tennessee GOP was run by Russian trolls http://hill.cm/h3xHGJt  pic.twitter.com/053LoiSkfl
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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 19 Oct 2017

          * I called for disclosure years ago. * Transparency helps—but it's not a solution. * They'll even fight disclosure?! https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/19/us/politics/facebook-google-russia-meddling-disclosure.html …pic.twitter.com/NYsWjk47Sa

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        1. 𝔊usta𝔉‏ @gerikson 19 Oct 2017
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          why not both?!

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