Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose What's new & scary is (1) The scale; (2) Facebook et al do not see their institutional role; (3) Having… https://t.co/8DZd0WaHPQ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose If you're asking "How could we entrust a private company with regulating the public commons" I have bad… https://t.co/Z0lkqwKEnl — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose But that requires FB to do something that's taboo in America & especially Silicon Valley (tho we alread… https://t.co/ZXIn1yBRZ9 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose Facebook, by creating an unregulated space in countries with weak institutions, could also help bridge… https://t.co/CWnzrN2bT4 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose As many have written, that's a recipe for potentially Orwellian social control. But let's remember ther… https://t.co/Ux4qfMtTd7 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose The other side of this coin: our worst tendencies have, for the first time in history, now consolidated… https://t.co/Z3M8b6meml — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose This has led to tension with governments from India to Germany, which object to the way Facebook is eng… https://t.co/spFcf9ReWo — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose As Kelefa Sanneh wrote in 2015, this mythology has never really been accurate, but we still cling to it: https://t.co/1nnv0hIlRO — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose What we have with facebook is a platform that emerges from the specifically American mythology of wholl… https://t.co/XyXZJKOUHF — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose We forget that the media is an institution that indirectly regulates public space. Without it, people's… https://t.co/h59pfiSxT3 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose This was what I saw in Myanmar. The problem wasn't facebook. It was absence of strong media or social n… https://t.co/viM1eqPBSh — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose To be clear, "regulation" typically doesn't mean formal govt oversight, but *informal* regulation in th… https://t.co/V3Njnv0NlH — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose Rather, when you look across cases, it's clear the two key constants are preexisting communal tensions… https://t.co/4ifEkkVzom — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose In 2012 the venom spread through facebook. But in 1993, analog channels were more than sufficient. So f… https://t.co/wMXRV8tK5f — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose Consider the riots in Assam, India, in 1993 and 2012. Similar cause & effect both times: rumors & lies… https://t.co/DiFZW32lPQ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose This tells us something important: facebook is the venue, but it is not the cause. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@kevinroose As Kevin notes, these same patterns of "fake news" & violence played out long before the internet. The… https://t.co/Eiq7wGlrUJ — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Please read this smart & important @kevinroose column, to which I will add a couple thoughts on Facebook & violence https://t.co/9k9n0e84kS — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @MazMHussain: $1.4 trillion dollars seems like a lot of money but at least America has achieved all it strategic goals and is much safer… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@jonathanchait @mattyglesias @mcottle I worked at TNR for three months as a bottom-rung unpaid intern and I knew. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@poniewozik https://t.co/xVmmjOJ3d8 — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@TomOrlik What book? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @DanAmira: A lot of people don't realize this but most canned pumpkin is not technically pumpkin https://t.co/hkWaVK2EFb — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Also worth remembering, as we wrote at the time, that he implied this would be done extrajudicially, rather than thru formal justice systems — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

It's worth remembering that Trump suggested he would jail Hillary Clinton if he won https://t.co/qN5G4JHpzg — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Hard to argue with this. Also a non-zero chance that the 2016 opposition candidate will face a credible threat of i… https://t.co/mnbKa514yI — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @Jake_Bernstein: Mexico’s Record Violence Is a Crisis 20 Years in the Making https://t.co/AUXaKG03YE — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@DenisonBe happy birthday! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @amandahess: INTERNETTING: a video series about internet culture and us, by me. coming Tuesday everywhere videos are seen. https://t.co/… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@lkmcgann @Milbank In his defense, it would be unreasonable to expect Dana Milbank to spend his time scrutinizing c… https://t.co/ukTxVJ4vHF — PolitiTweet.org