Many ideas floating around about the platform duopoly and digital surveillance. But. Nostalgia won’t work. Centralized control won’t work. Labels may help some but won’t work. Traditional media is important but it’s not coming back like before. Moving forward looks different.
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And while I focus on it because it’s my beat, acting like the 2016 election in the US and Brexit were solely about Facebook or Cambridge Analytica won’t help either. Here’s my piece from March 2016 when people thought Trump was a fleeting flash-in-the pan. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/31/opinion/campaign-stops/adventures-in-the-trump-twittersphere.html …pic.twitter.com/IbKd8QDttf
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Also. This stuff is *mundane* for all modern campaigns. The real story is that Trump campaign was so dis/underorganized that they mostly turned things over to Facebook which skillfully guided them through it all—for a fee, as they do to all their clients. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/mar/23/leaked-cambridge-analyticas-blueprint-for-trump-victory …
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I believe part of the answer may lie in realigning our ideation, design, development processes to methodologies that include
#ethics, and train new tech workers to use ethical process in all their decisions. Which is why I wrote this:https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/03/using-ethics-in-web-design/ …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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