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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 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Women+ in ML/DS

      The issues are structural. The issues are structural.https://twitter.com/wimlds/status/975961681267277824 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Women+ in ML/DS @wimlds
      Another great TED talk by @zeynep about how #MachineLearning may be used in unethical ways when applied to your Facebook/Google/Amazon data. Very relevant to the #CambridgeAnalytica story. https://www.ted.com/talks/zeynep_tufekci_we_re_building_a_dystopia_just_to_make_people_click_on_ads …
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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Stratos Safioleas

      Yep. Facebook non-users get profiled, too. This is our online infrastructure: dossiers are accumulated whatever you do.https://twitter.com/stratosathens/status/976040699647922178 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Stratos Safioleas @stratosathens
      Day of reckoning for @facebook is here: "Facebook even creates “shadow profiles” of nonusers. That is, even if you are not on Facebook, the company may well have compiled a profile of you!" Essential read by @zeynep https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html … pic.twitter.com/idTjBIuz8D
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Jay Rosen

      We are neither properly informed, nor consenting.https://twitter.com/jayrosen_nyu/status/976118695721340929 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Jay RosenVerified account @jayrosen_nyu
      "This wasn’t informed consent. This was the exploitation of user data and user trust." —@zeynep. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html … Exactly. "Uninformed consent" is how Facebook lost the plot and yet built the machine that it is now. Undoing that is a long hard road, and may be impossible.
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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Paul Jones

      The role of Amazon Turk—global low-pay labor marker—isn’t a minor part of this story.https://twitter.com/smalljones/status/976111106136727553 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Paul Jones @smalljones
      Mechanical Turk + @CamAnalytica + @facebook + #thisisyourdigitallife = election tampering @zeynep explains in @nytimes https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/19/opinion/facebook-cambridge-analytica.html …
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2018

      The most annoying, misguided response: “wait, is anyone really surprised?” Yes, you’re the genius, we’re all idiots. You’re also the person who’d ask “wait, you’re surprised there’s lead in paint.” 🙄 Cynicism or smugness—or both, who knows—but no truer enemy to positive change.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 20 Mar 2018

      There is no way for an ordinary person to keep track of APIs, latest papers in computational inference, ML, secondary data markets, dark UX, tracking pixels, database mergers and all the rest. Even I can’t find all the privacy options, and I’m technical and this is my research!

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

      In 2018 elections, Facebook will be marketing such services directly. Not through third parties, but by paying Facebook.

      4 replies 70 retweets 173 likes
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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

      Zuckerberg has released a statement saying if we can't protect your data, we don't deserve to serve you. The problem is how Facebook serves its true customers, not us, by collecting massive amounts of data on us. He says he's been working to understand. What's the complication?pic.twitter.com/Buill9xKxc

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

      This talk on how FB will restrict data to third-party apps? It's already happened—years ago. Facebook gave away this data when it helped it grow then cut it down because it wants to directly monetize it itself. We are surveilled, and then our attention is sold. That's the issue.

      2 replies 52 retweets 131 likes
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

      Maybe the 50 million whose data was siphoned to Cambridge Analytica will get notified but there were so many many apps doing the same thing. How about those people? Will each incident get a notification? That spigot was open for so many years (when it helped Facebook grow).

      5 replies 45 retweets 145 likes
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

      Facebook's CEO constantly releases statements apologizing and wowing to protect our privacy better and promising to do better by "the community." The business model which made him so rich and its harms are never addressed. So we keep coming back to the same point.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted TED Talks

          Anyway, here's my TED talk from last year where I talk about all this, and what it means for elections and beyond. No big secret here that Zuckerberg has to discover. Many of us, especially in academia but not just, have been shouting from the rooftops.https://twitter.com/TEDTalks/status/976549911759147008 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

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          This is the data Facebook actually has on you. Spoiler alert: it's a lot more than you think. Watch @zeynep's full TED Talk here: http://t.ted.com/MGSGg9S  pic.twitter.com/sQ8Ig1e5uo
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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 21 Mar 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Aaron Greenspan

          He controls the voting stock, and the way it is structured he will as long as he wants. (Sandberg seems to be the other person of substantive influence but without the voting stock). But Facebook is effectively under legal control of a single person.https://twitter.com/AaronGreenspan/status/976633746899140609 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Aaron Greenspan @AaronGreenspan
          Replying to @zeynep
          That's also because we still have the same CEO at the helm after how many of these major issues? At any other company he would have been fired long ago.
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        1. Baki Can Kadıoğlu‏ @BakiCanKadioglu 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          Why should he ever (have) cared? There was/is absolutely no incentive for FB to not sell your attention and info

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        1. Aaron Greenspan‏ @AaronGreenspan 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          That's also because we still have the same CEO at the helm after how many of these major issues? At any other company he would have been fired long ago.

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        1. Pierre Asselin‏ @PierAsselin 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          The fox is rarely the best warrant for the safety of the henhouse.

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        1. Ira Goldman  🦆 🦆 🦆‏ @KDbyProxy 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @nabihasyed

          Ira Goldman  🦆 🦆 🦆 Retweeted Ira Goldman  🦆 🦆 🦆

          Yep. And here, try this.https://twitter.com/KDbyProxy/status/976589591460368385 …

          Ira Goldman  🦆 🦆 🦆 added,

          Ira Goldman  🦆 🦆 🦆 @KDbyProxy
          Yes, 🐻🐻🐻poop in the woods. If you wanted to stop that, you'd have to… 1) Put diapers on the bears & set up a diaper-changing system. 2) Move all bears out of the woods. 3) Do away with woods. 4) Do away with bears. Oops. I didn't mean bears. I meant Facebook.
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        1. Jelena  😷 #FFP2/N95forHCW  💙‏ @_j3lena_ 21 Mar 2018
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          Jelena  😷 #FFP2/N95forHCW  💙 Retweeted God

          About his apologizing and (fake) promises:https://twitter.com/TheTweetOfGod/status/976559593261211648 …

          Jelena  😷 #FFP2/N95forHCW  💙 added,

          God @TheTweetOfGod
          Mark Zuckerberg is one of the last people you should trust, and I mean that both literally and alphabetically.
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        1. Judith Pakosinski‏ @JayPako 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep @mattyglesias

          I think we need an appropriate hymn for this tweet.https://youtu.be/F7P2ViCRObs 

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        1. Luke Stevens‏ @lukestevens 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          To be fair he did address this in the NYT interview: the business model is a necessity for the developing world that enables Facebook’s altruistic goal of connecting all of humankind… you wouldn’t want to leave poor people behind now, would you? /s 🙄∞https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/21/technology/mark-zuckerberg-q-and-a.html?action=click&contentCollection=Technology&module=RelatedCoverage&region=EndOfArticle&pgtype=article …

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        1. The GOP delenda est‏ @elvislevel 21 Mar 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          Trusting any IT guy with some important aspect of the "community" is preposterous. Generally have this rare talent for combining superciliousness, sanctimony, self importance, and a 5th grade understanding of anything other than IT.

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