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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 6 Apr 2018

      Mark Zuckerberg has been apologizing nonstop for more than 15 years. It's always the same apology for pretty much the same act. When do we talk about the obvious: Facebook's decisions are primarily driven by its business model. Here's my latest for @Wired: https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/ …pic.twitter.com/wOsiXY5UEB

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Apr 2018

      Sheryl Sandberg also claimed that Facebook's problem is that they've been "way too idealistic." I don't know people who work for or run Facebook believe this, but if they do, it shows the power of self-deception—after 15 years of deeds, this doesn't hold. https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/ …

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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Apr 2018

      Also: Pleeeeaase. Journalists should not act like stenographers to the latest apology tour; instead write about the context of all the apology tours in the past 15 years, and start interrogating Facebook's business model more (as some have been doing) in the interviews.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Internet Ethics

      This isn't new, folks.https://twitter.com/IEthics/status/982357793012199424 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Internet Ethics @IEthics
      "By 2008, Zuckerberg had written only four posts on #Facebook’s blog: Every single one of them was an apology or an attempt to explain a decision that had upset users": https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/?mbid=social_twitter_onsiteshare … @zeynep #ethics #privacy #internet #business #tech #socialmedia
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Apr 2018

      Look the point isn’t all this due to some evil conspiracy. I’m not claiming that Facebook employees don’t care about users. But incentives and business models shape their behavior—just like other companies and people.

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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 6 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Roy

      On Android. Facebook has apparently been scooping up people’s text messages on Android phones. Not messenger communication—plain text messages. Content and metadata.https://twitter.com/foxenhimr/status/982385875630903297?s=21 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Roy @Foxenhimr
      Replying to @zeynep @WIRED
      When you say text messages, are you referring to Facebook messenger conversations ? If yes, and Im using the messenger app on an Apple product, they can’t access my messages ?
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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2018

      The way to change Facebook and YouTube—and the whole online economy of surveillance—is to change their incentive structure and business model. Neither Zuckerberg apologizing for the umpteenth time in fifteen years nor legislators yelling at Zuckerberg will get us there.

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 7 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Alec Muffett

      ahaha this is supposed to be a put-down of me—the very week Facebook announcing an implementation of political ad transparency of the kind I called for five years ago. So yeah maybe that would be a good idea. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯https://twitter.com/AlecMuffett/status/982655550210048000 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett
      In the future perhaps all CS dropouts will be required to adopt a sociologist, just in case they become successful?
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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Thorsten Benner

      As far as I can tell, nobody who interviewed Zuckerberg asked him “What the heck do you mean: ‘Facebook community’? This makes no sense.”https://twitter.com/thorstenbenner/status/982939695440171008 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Thorsten BennerVerified account @thorstenbenner
      "it appears that nobody around Facebook’s sovereign & singular ruler has managed to convince their leader that repeated use of “community” to refer Facebook’s users is not appropriate and is, in fact, misleading." @zeynep on the Facebook Stockholm syndrome https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook …
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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Owen Williams  ⚡

      This is not a mistake. Media should push back on these non-stop apologies and this and that band-aid announcements over many years and start asking about deeds—and legislators should demand accountability.https://twitter.com/ow/status/982227996265205764 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Owen Williams  ⚡Verified account @ow
      How Instagram tricks you into syncing ALL of your contacts when picking a username is the most sinister interface trick I've ever seen pic.twitter.com/BQqgYHNOs5
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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Christina Wilkie

      I’d be surprised if every person who was on Facebook by 2015 didn’t have their data siphoned this way, and still floating out there in many databases. There may have been thousands, hundreds of thousands—maybe millions—of apps with this kind of access.https://twitter.com/christinawilkie/status/983062605496451072 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Christina WilkieVerified account @christinawilkie
      Scoop: Facebook has suspended a second data firm, @Cubeyou, after CNBC’s @MishCastillo discovered tactics similar to those of Cambridge Analytica. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/04/08/cubeyou-cambridge-like-app-collected-data-on-millions-from-facebook.html …
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        1. John Dodds‏ @johndodds 8 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          "Ask for forgiveness, not permission."is coming home to roost.

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        1. Jill S.‏ @outseide 8 Apr 2018
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          In many ways the internet still feels like the land that legislation hasn’t touched. Wonder how long before it finally catches up and starts being regulated in meaningful ways.

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        2. Mitch Kapor‏Verified account @mkapor 8 Apr 2018
          Replying to @zeynep

          Don't think we've been formally introduced, so please forgive any intrusion. I'm planning to cite your great writing on FB and Zuckerberg in an NPR interview tomorrow for their prime-time news. I don't want to mispronounce your name.

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        3. Richard Robbins‏ @rich1 8 Apr 2018
          Replying to @mkapor @zeynep

          I'm sure I'm not the only follower of both hoping that @mkapor and @zeynep do meet. Only good things could happen.

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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 8 Apr 2018
          Replying to @feamster

          Agree, agree and agree. I rarely talk about Cambridge Analytica or Russia--not that there isn't real issues there but neither is the core of the problem.

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        1. James Allworth‏Verified account @jamesallworth 9 Apr 2018
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          James Allworth Retweeted James Allworth

          I ran the math, and I would agree; they prolly lost 1.5bn profiles many times overhttps://twitter.com/jamesallworth/status/976403548207382528 …

          James Allworth added,

          James AllworthVerified account @jamesallworth
          What the F*** Was Facebook Thinking? https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/what-the-f-was-facebook-thinking-a1c49dbf29c2 … Quantifying the size of the FB profile leak; and why would the fastest growing advertising company in the world just give away it’s user data? pic.twitter.com/FJ6wGVCoMX
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        1. Your Favorite Side Dish‏ @QueerHope 9 Apr 2018
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          Agreed. There's been too much apologizing without changing behavior or even looking at why this behavior is there in the first place. Zuckerberg is convinced that people's perceptions are the problem, not his company's actions.

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