Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @ekp: The big part of harassment that people who haven't been repeatedly harassed by a hateful mob are lucky to not get is: It changes y… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Max_Fisher: https://t.co/BBrt972vrJ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Sometimes people would get in an argument about Steely Dan or whatever, but there were very few formal UN investigations into whether the board's design features contributed to any mass genocides! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Back in the dark ages of the '00s I used to post on a message board whose purpose was to share what you were listening to at that moment, usually as a youtube link or jpg of the album cover, and looking back I think that was the last (maybe only?) purely good social platform — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @CeylanWrites: Very excited to announce that after 7 invaluable years on the international desk covering Turkey and the UK, I will be jo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @EricLiptonNYT: The Russian government undertook an extensive campaign to try to sabotage the 2016 election to help Mr. Trump become pre… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @HillaryKelly: FYI, nobody from Airmail reached out to me, or as far as I can tell, any of the women who came forward about Leon. Cool.… — PolitiTweet.org

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Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Critics of Trump’s Iran policies have argued for years that his escalations targeted regular Iranian families, effectively punishing them for their nationality. Parallels now with his approach to China. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Am I reading correctly that this bars all transactions with Tencent? Can he ... even do that? Tencent is the world's 7th largest company. Its market capitalization is larger than most European economies. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

My "What's happening" feed — a prominently-displayed sidebar of trending topics — has been dominated all day by Beirut conspiracies. First that it was a nuke, now that it was an American bomb. Clicking yields 1000s of conspiracy tweets. Twitter has 145 million daily active users. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@cwarzel @mehdirhasan @hulabunny What you’re describing is @mehdirhasan’s interview MO — PolitiTweet.org

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@DavidKenner Glad you’re okay — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ambernoelle: Is that her because — PolitiTweet.org

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@kevinroose you always say how much you miss message boards, now you get to be a volunteer mod on the biggest BBS of them all — PolitiTweet.org

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@eleanorbarkhorn I've started doing prose detoxes on weekends, where I try to limit myself to reading really graceful writing. By Sunday night I'm happier and would swear that I'm thinking more clearly? But also cripplingly insecure obviously — PolitiTweet.org

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Good example of social media data voids, in which platforms rapidly amplify misinformation: a search for "elon musk lithium" leads to hundreds of viral conspiracy tweets (boosted by Musk himself). The fact check shows up 20+ pages deep into the results. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DGisSERIOUS: lithium stuff is pretty easy to figure out if you google for 2 min. Morales wanted to exploit it, the quality of the lithi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @bradplumer: I don't have any strong views on aliens, but.......the same guy who briefed the Pentagon on "off-world vehicles" also appea… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @brianstelter: Tucker's lie "inspired the exact same kind of personal harassment against others which he so indignantly & falsely claime… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @halbfinger: A footnote-thread to this story: https://t.co/LYtm8bKwsW In Feb. 2018, Israeli media reported that an Israeli motorist who… — PolitiTweet.org

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@kevinroose @WillOremus @andyguess @BrendanNyhan Yeah. And the onus for that is obviously mostly on reporters. Maybe it’s not fair to expect social scientists to frame their work as speaking to academics and journalists simultaneously, but this topic receives so much interest that I think that’s just the reality. — PolitiTweet.org

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@andyguess @BrendanNyhan (1) Lots to suggest that, with near-infinite articles to pick from, people, often passively and unconsciously, selectively read and share content that is identity-affirming in the aggregate, even if individual stories and outlets are facially neutral. — PolitiTweet.org

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@andyguess @BrendanNyhan That makes sense. I think for me the question is how those neutral/MSM links are being consumed and contextualized within e.g. personalized social media feeds. To me, feels like a lot of datapoints to suggest two things about that contextualization. — PolitiTweet.org

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@BrendanNyhan @andyguess Re selective exposure, this is probably what you mean as well, but I think it’s subtler than hate-reading. There are probably 10,000 MSM articles published every day. Would take little effort to read an all-CNN/NYT diet that contains solely identity-affirming content. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@BrendanNyhan @andyguess Maybe I’m just seeing this through my own filter bubble, but I feel like I only encounter the Sunstein hypothesis in studies (rightly!) debunking it. I worry that hypothesis has become bit of a red herring and we might be overcorrecting as a result. — PolitiTweet.org

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Consider how reliably the most popular posts on Facebook are from hyper-partisan outlets. I promise you everyone reading those Ben Shapiro articles also clicked a bunch of CNN links. They probably read mostly CNN! But through a hyper-partisan social feed. https://t.co/wCWqJhMGKL — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

For one, reader diets have always been like 10-to-1 news-to-opinion. To understand polarization, you have to look at that 1 opinion article that frames how readers process the 10 news links. Or how posts on social platforms frame those 10 news links. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If I write a story whose facts affirm liberal worldviews, it will be shared and read heavily by liberals. The next day, a different story might be shared & read by conservatives. Both groups visited the same NYT domain, but they hardly developed a shared media diet or reality. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

For one, these studies assume that if Ds and Rs are both visiting the same news sites like NYT & CNN, it must mean they have a common media diet & therefore a shared reality. But any reporter with access to their social media referral stats can tell you this is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org