The current Facebook crisis is a function of elite distaste that Trump was better at it. Had Clinton been better at Facebook and won, they would have once again been hailed as great saviors a la the Arab Spring.https://twitter.com/sarahfrier/status/981255175901011968 …
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Replying to @PatrickRuffini
Eh, I think you’re only half-right. There’s DEFINITELY a normative component to the outrage at FB. But the worm was already turning against it. If Clinton had won, you’d see digital celebrated in general, but not FB in particular.
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Replying to @davekarpf
Sure, but we would NOT have seen soul-searching at big tech cos, or people asking the question, "What have we done?"
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Replying to @PatrickRuffini
Agreed. I think the celebratory bubble has passed, and the backlash/rethinking was coming. Youre right that an R populist fits the backlash in a way no D would.
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And that people’s sympathy tends to correlate with whether their side is winning doesn’t make the problem any less true.
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