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Kevin Roose
kevinroose
New by me, @MikeIsaac and @sheeraf: a post-election look inside Facebook, where internal battles are raging about how to balance the sometimes-incompatible goals of growth and goodness.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/24/technology/facebook-
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zeynep tufekci
zeynep
Significant paper on the cost of misinformation. Basically, one standard deviation more viewership of Sean Hannity (denied seriousness of COVID) versus Tucker Carlson (took the pandemic seriously) is associated with
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Dan Martin
danmartin_7
Misinformation is a weed that we can never eliminate. We can spray them w chemicals, place a plastic wrap over the dirt & under the mulch to keep them from
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Ryan Mac🙃
RMac18
This is a big get from @alexeheath. More than 110,000 government government officials and candidates were on a Facebook whitelist that prevented them from being factchecked — and subsequently have
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Elsie Eyakuze
MikocheniReport
How to reduce the flow of fake news forwards from That Person in your life: A Thread. Like you, there are a few people in my life who forward me
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Mormon Women
mormonweg
We all know social media has become a powerful tool for the dissemination of disinformation, propaganda, and #conspiracytheories. But we can do something about it!1/4 One of the most challenging
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
tha_rami
Twitter reminder: when engaging with assholes, they are trying to broadcast their hate & misinformation via your reach, mentions, viral threads. Muting is giving them free & unmonitored access to
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oddy4real
That time the USA slapped a visa ban on us (Nigeria), what was the reason again? Identity management??Seeing the problem? "According to the Trump administration, Nigeria was banned because the
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elizabeth bruenig
ebruenig
among the many problems with (may god forgive me) the steak umms twitter account's narrative about propaganda and misinformation being most appealing to the disenfranchised is that it just doesn't
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Judd Legum
JuddLegum
1. A viral article w/climate misinformation, published on The Daily Wire, was rated "partly false" by a Facebook fact-checking partnersThe fact-check was written by 7 PhD scientists Then The Daily
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Jonathan Kay
jonkay
I wrote a book about conspiracy theories and I'm quite familiar with the damage that misinformation can do. Laws like this are counterproductive, as they only fuel distrust. And inevitably,
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David Weissman
davidmweissman
As much as I hated Obama when I was a Republican, I never once felt I had to report a tweet of his as I am reporting Trump's tweets on
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ReaganRepublican
NeverDotard
For those wondering why @twitter finally took a stand on Trump's lies about elections instead of his conspiracy theories about @JoeNBC.A short reminder1) in 2016, Russia used our social media
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Andrew Scheer
AndrewScheer
Reports that the government is considering restricting free speech are very disturbing. The government should not take advantage of a health crisis to infringe our hard-fought freedoms. https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/covid-misinformation-disinforma
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Mark Di Stefano
MarkDiStef
NEW: In response to claims in that Twitter thread with 25k+ RTs that the UK Department of Health has been running a network of fake NHS accounts, a Twitter spokesperson
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Yardley Yeadon
MichaelYeadon3
This is pure manipulation. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/203318/covid-19-news-consumption-week-twenty-five-misinformation-deep-dive.pdfOFCOM has prevented main media from reporting other than the Govt line on covid19
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