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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Zuck’s frame is that every debate has two sides, and thus the truth must be in the middle. It’s a model that shares roots with notions of swing voters and independents, a belief that compromise involves each side making equal concessions. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2020

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

I keep thinking about Zuckerberg’s responses here, which are an echo of what he’s consistently said. What I find interesting about them is it reflects a fundamentally 20th-century model for thinking about media and information. https://t.co/fPvtOMQKou — PolitiTweet.org

The fact that Ds and Rs can’t agree on what the problem is lets people like Zuckerberg get away with both-sidesing… https://t.co/2AI7cOQk1T

Posted Oct. 28, 2020

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Brian Fung | @[email protected] @b_fung

Thing is, in both politics and journalism, this model is now years out of date. For the past decade, political scientists have written loads of research on how swing voters are mostly a myth. https://t.co/8jfsUhymbq https://t.co/H4fNE5YmNQ — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Oct. 28, 2020