So this Wired story pretty much confirmed for me what I’d been saying for a while (including before the election). Facebook got played and manipulated to not fix the egregious exploitation of its platform before the election. Plain and simple. https://www.wired.com/story/inside-facebook-mark-zuckerberg-2-years-of-hell/ …https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/914200471384010752 …
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Let me emphasize something that I have both tweeted and written here and there. *Mass media* also got played, and was targeted pretty deliberately, especially by Wikileaks etc. This isn't just a Facebook vulnerability. Here's an earlier thread on that.https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/831497557062848517 …
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We lean on Facebook and YouTube and Twitter (as I think we should) and there is a lot of good traditional media reporting on their manipulation/vulnerabilities but the mass media story remains largely untold, unearthed despite it's crucial role in this space.
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And none of this is an argument about whether Hillary Clinton was the best candidate, what else was going on, etc. I continue to think the real story isn't what RU may or may not have done, but the vulnerabilities of our information ecology and our broken politics.
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Many of us who’v been paying attn,not just from our past election manipulation & interference by Russia,but understanding FB & how it works. Its all about the money. Im afraid to admit it. So is twitter. All those who run these corps,at the top,know whats been going on.
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How do we hold them accountable?
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Liberalism has no defense against fascism.
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Yeah they were “manipulated” into taking $$$&$ This is
@facebook https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vWRlxSGf_ns …#computationalpropagandaThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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