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    1. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      Btw this is my @Wired article about the 14-year apology tour that Sen. Thune just referenced. My key point is that all this isn't about Zuckerberg personally; these downsides are intrinsic to the business model.https://www.wired.com/story/why-zuckerberg-15-year-apology-tour-hasnt-fixed-facebook/ …

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    2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted zeynep tufekci

      This one gets me the maddest. Facebook had no excuse being so negligent about Myanmar. Here's me tweeting about it IN 2013. PEOPLE HAVE BEGGED FACEBOOK FOR YEARS TO BE PRO-ACTIVE IN BURMA/MYANMAR. Now he's hiring "dozens". This is a historic wrong. 😡🤬🤬https://twitter.com/zeynep/status/359368606166958080 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynep
      Last year, I pondered the "first social-media fueled ethnic cleansing." With ethnic tensions & expanding online hate speech, is it Burma?
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    3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      With this question: does Facebook have real competition? Nope. There is no real alternative to Facebook: no substantive competition, no real market discipline on the company. It's simple as that.

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    4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      I'm stuck on the Myanmar/Burma answer. Now hiring "dozens..." 😡😡It's the second biggest refugee generating crisis in the world; an accelerating ethnic cleansing where Facebook played an instrumental role over many years, with articles written on this, people raising alarms...

      4 replies 95 retweets 206 likes
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    5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      zeynep tufekci Retweeted Aaron Sankin

      Look, Senators have smart people briefing them, and they have tried to ask reasonable questions. But they often get lost in the details and that's the point. An ordinary person *cannot* meaningfully consent to this level of complexity and obscurity.https://twitter.com/ASankin/status/983799338676596742 …

      zeynep tufekci added,

      Aaron SankinVerified account @ASankin
      While it's totally legit to dunk on old senators for asking dumb questions about Facebook, this is the level of knowledge that most people have about a thing they use every day. You shouldn't have to be a tech expert to understand the privacy of your online data.
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    6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      Zuckerberg: ~"I hope what we do with data is not surprising to people." When I explain to people what Facebook does with the data and also how it collects and aggregates data on people, people's jaws are on the floor. Smart, educated people, too. It's all very obscure.

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    7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      So, the fact that he didn't clarify means that Facebook would use Messenger content in targeting? (He just hung on to the fact that WhatsApp is end-to-end encryption). Anyone know?

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    8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      I want to repeat this: the full scope of the amount of data collection, aggregation and retention Facebook does is shocking to most people, and I am certain any poll or research would affirm this. People do not understand because they cannot. It is buried, obscure, complex.

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    9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      Hearings touching upon real issues. What does it mean to be neutral? What's hate speech? What level of verification certifies "authentic"? Those aren't question for Zuckerberg to answer. They're political questions *we* should discuss & tell him—and all tech companies—what to do.

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    10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      Zuckerberg on not Facebook selling data, my piece points out why that is a red herring as far as Facebook is concerned. It collects and hoards data, and sells not data but *us* and *our attention*—it is in Facebook's interests not to sell data.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/09/opinion/zuckerberg-testify-congress.html …

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      zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

      Anyone gonna ask about the newsfeed algorithm? Guess not.

      2:32 PM - 10 Apr 2018
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        2. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

          Got my sympathy moment for Zuckerberg's honest answer to whether he can assure Senators that every last ad/content from Russia is off the platform. Not only is that not realistic, honesty wish there was more focus on the domestic conditions that fueled the online manipulation.

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        3. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

          The questions almost all start good—staffers briefed them well—and then devolve into misunderstandings. So telling. This is failure of us as media and tech press and pundits, and obfuscation and complexity as practiced by Facebook—indeed, most of tech.

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        4. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted Rafiq Copeland

          Business interests vs. human interests. When history of all this is written, Myanmar will be a piece that won’t be ignored. Some of this *is* complex. That was an egregious shrugging of responsibility. They should have made it a giant priority in 2013.https://twitter.com/rafiqcopeland/status/983865814334849024 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          Rafiq Copeland @RafiqCopeland
          Replying to @KevinFoley
          In Germany they have 1200 German language content reviewers for 40million users in order to meet the government enforced 24hour review threshold. In Myanmar for 30million it is 'dozens' and they've only just been hired. This doesn't come close. @zeynep
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        5. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 10 Apr 2018

          Or—Myanmar is the one issue I think about most. Introducing virality to an ethnically-tense situation with few counter-balancing institutions is potent. Not a game. We have billions more coming online.

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        6. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2018

          I'm half-expecting Zuckerberg to break into a song today... "You don't understand what power is... You don't understand what glory is..." 🎶🎵🎶🎶 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5uHpmtAGmvo …

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        7. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2018

          Zuckerberg keeps saying that you have control over what other people you share stuff with on Facebook. Sure. THE QUESTION IS HOW WE KEEP FACEBOOK FROM COLLECTING DATA ON US. Facebook tracks us online, offline, on and off the platform, cross-device and even BUYS external data.🙄🙄

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        8. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2018

          zeynep tufekci Retweeted George Sass

          He did a pretty good job pronouncing it! Also, few know the correct pronunciation, so no baseline, no worries. 😀 (FWIW it's T-ew-f-ah-k-chee or T-oo-f-ah-k-chee. The u is like the French ü, and the k is hard k and the c is actually ç so ch sound.)https://twitter.com/george_sass/status/984082371367628801 …

          zeynep tufekci added,

          George Sass @george_sass
          Props to Burgess for admitting he was probs gonna botch pronouncing @zeynep's name.
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        9. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2018

          Aah, she was just asking about computational inference and external data, and Zuck is dodging and talking about pictures you take and "we don't sell your data" dog-and-pony show. Facebook track us, uses data + algorithms to infer things about us, and then sells that as targeting!

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        10. zeynep tufekci‏Verified account @zeynep 11 Apr 2018

          That last answer: everything Facebook has on you is available on the download to which Zuckerberg said "yes": really? I don't think the data they purchase on you or the data from tracking pixels etc. is on there.

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        1. One Hundred Watt‏ @kjmn58 10 Apr 2018
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          Way above their collective heads...

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