How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation
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#2a suprisingly self-aware and perceptive piece from a member of the media "digestive tract" that produces this problem day in and day out.
I think this sheds too much blame away from major news media outlets, whose whole job _should have_ been to fact check the stories they hear on the "ground" (twitter). But it assesses twitter's role correctly.
The piece I think people forget is that twitter has absolutely no financial interest in solving the "misinformation" problem. Fake news drives engagement. People like and retweet everything, regardless of if its true. Twitter is a key tool for the media (and I suspect that's where the vast majority of its value comes from). It's at the centerpiece of the news cycle now. Twitter is great for short, digestible snippets and one-liners that the media (and fake news) thrives on. At every level, they are incentivized to drive "engagement" and this can mean at the cost of truth.
Nothing will change (significantly) until twitters bottom line (user engagement as a proxy for ad money) changes.
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#3NYT is being gamed to feed misinformation so this is ironic to read; like the BuzzFeed article on fake news. I'm no Trump supporter but I have screen caps of single digit election predictions; e.g. 90/10 Hillary. It's owned by a Billionaire Mexican communications mogul[1] and is pretty much leftist & big business propaganda.
The only difference on Twitter is that a lot of little voices parrot 1 message instead of one loud one. The bots are great. You need both sides of propaganda to comfortably land in the middle; or at least be informed.
[1] Please don't pretend the founding family stock split helps them retain control.
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#5Would be interested to know what percent of the NYTs twitter followers are fake.
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#7NYT is being gamed to feed misinformation so this is ironic to read; like the BuzzFeed article on fake news. I'm no Trump supporter but I have screen caps of single digit election predictions; e.g. 90/10 Hillary. It's owned by a Billionaire Mexican communications mogul[1] and is pretty much leftist & big business propaganda. The only difference on Twitter is that a lot of little voices parrot 1 message instead of one…
> like the BuzzFeed article on fake news
Is the implication here that BuzzFeed is itself fake news? Because that's certainly not true. Some of the best real news reporting I've seen lately has come out of BuzzFeed News.
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#8NYT is being gamed to feed misinformation so this is ironic to read; like the BuzzFeed article on fake news. I'm no Trump supporter but I have screen caps of single digit election predictions; e.g. 90/10 Hillary. It's owned by a Billionaire Mexican communications mogul[1] and is pretty much leftist & big business propaganda. The only difference on Twitter is that a lot of little voices parrot 1 message instead of one…
>leftist & big business propaganda
These seem to be at odds with each other, which makes me doubt that either or both of them is actually the case.
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#9NYT is being gamed to feed misinformation so this is ironic to read; like the BuzzFeed article on fake news. I'm no Trump supporter but I have screen caps of single digit election predictions; e.g. 90/10 Hillary. It's owned by a Billionaire Mexican communications mogul[1] and is pretty much leftist & big business propaganda. The only difference on Twitter is that a lot of little voices parrot 1 message instead of one…
The 90/10 (or more realistically, 70/30) were predictions of her chance of winning, not the votes. I.e. 90% or 70% likelihood of having over 50% of the electoral votes. It was not a prediction of getting 90% of the votes.
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#10You've got to be a twit to believe twitter