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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Facebook. Got. Played. In. Plain. Sight.
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted Thoma§ H. Ptacek
I wrote a bunch of it longer form; have been tweeting for a while. Hold on.https://twitter.com/tqbf/status/963164426953248771 …
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The article at Wired fills in a few more of the pieces of the story I very briefly wrote about here last year. I believe there is maybe one or two more shoes to drop, but all pointing at this direction. Facebook was deliberately manipulated—and it caved. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/29/opinion/mark-zuckerberg-facebook.html …pic.twitter.com/O4v2loedXs
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zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci
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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