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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 8 Jan 2018

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      This isn’t frightening, this is ridicilous. Get a grip people, if you want to talk about things elsewhere, you need to, like, get your head out of the US and think for a microsecond. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/950581647891513345 …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      Anyone who puts Trump ahead of Putin or Egypt’s Sissi in terms of oppressing journalists needs to stop making list about any country besides the United States. Hey, rank the best states the visit in June or something.

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      This mentality is also self-defeating. American people have an enormous amount of tools and freedoms. Yes, a few of them are under pressure, but that pressure is minor compared to what people face in Russia or Egypt.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      I don’t mean to minimize the challenges, but I find this learned-powerlessness through exaggration to be real theat to positive change. There is so much that is possible and doable!

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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

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      I read the article. Putting Trump inthe same press release as Putin and Xi Jinping, giving him an award category where he is the top? Come on. I agree there are issues, but they are rounding errors to what Russian journalists face. https://twitter.com/susansternberg/status/950590420844728320 …

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      Reality check. Trump isn’t even a tiny threat to press freedom in the US the way Putin is—not yet. The industry structure, rise of algorithmic digital monopolies, removal of barriers to monopolistic practices, rise of propaganda channels? Them’s the threats. All precede Trump.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

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      Trump may have introduced and heightened *whataboutism* in the US, but there isn’t a press freedom oppressor in the world that needed or waited for Trump for whataboutism. In reality, Trump whataboutism only really affects the US.https://twitter.com/menisaydin/status/950593905401192449 …

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      enis @_enisaydin
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      But this list considers leaders rather than country conditions. However from now on, this is a great leverage for other oppressor leaders to make "whataboutism"
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      American journalists continue to be freer than pretty much anywhere else in the world. Whether they can find the financing; whether editors focus on important, investigative stories; whether good press can break through the propaganda? Those are the issues, not press freedom.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      Sorry, as someone who is connected to elsewhere in the world, it is frustrating to watch Americans equate some existing but relatively minor pressure—as things go!—with catastrophic situations is frustrating, and also I observe it to be profoundly disempowering!

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

      I observed many examples over the years... I think I’ll write it up longer. There are things that REALLY need to be fixed in the US—but also many powerful tools for democracy and protecting human rights. Being convinced you have no tools is more effective than all the oppression.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

          Also, haha, I was typing on my phone typo in first tweet in the thread! 😬 Switched to computer and was like, ah, what. (My phone doesn't correct typos because I type in multiple languages so turned off, heh)

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

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          I attended @PaperhandPuppet show in Chapel Hill, as I do every year. (They are a national treasure!) They had picked Shelley / rise like lions after slumber / as their theme. They are onto something.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/901943841003110401 …

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          This year's program starts with Shelley! pic.twitter.com/2ZSbINlFIc
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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Jan 2018

          Anyway, end late night (for me!) rant. I may have ranted on this one, but I don't mean to single them out. I've been observing this in many spheres. Americans probably need to shake that dew that had fallen on them in sleep more than anything else. The tools are there. /rant

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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 9 Jan 2018

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          I'm not saying it is completely unimportant but putting a meh cease-and-desist letter even in the same *page* as Putin or Sisi is .. ridiculous. (spelled correctly unlike first tweet in thread! Sorry!) Exaggeration is a form of learned-powerlessness. https://twitter.com/georgelenzer/status/950693854633775104 …

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        1. Jon Becker‏ @jonbecker 8 Jan 2018
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          FWIW, I muted all things Krassenstein a week or so ago.

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        1. Jeffrey Morgan‏ @digdawg 8 Jan 2018
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          Really. Trump's most rash action is a cease and desist letter to Holt about the Fire & Fury book; they promptly told him where he could stick it. The rest is noise. Ominous, corrosive, but noise.

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