Max Fisher

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

People talk about as the new Gamergate, but in the original Gamergate the harassers were at least competent and well-liked enough to form outrage mobs instead of having to literally bribe people into participating — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@HeerJeet Agreed. I thought @margaretomara’s book did a fantastic job placing the Stanford Review in the broader context, without overstating its importance. Can’t recommend her book enough. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

In reporting my book on how social platforms became accelerators of misinformation, polarization, and hate, people kept telling me: You have to look at the Silicon Valley venture capitalist culture that shaped those platforms. Today was a good illustration of what they meant. — PolitiTweet.org

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@nicoleperlroth It feels like it explains a lot, given their role in funding and shaping these platforms! — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

If you want insight into Silicon Valley's relationship with American democracy: its all-powerful zillionaire venture capitalists hang out on a private $100M chat app sharing thoughts like journalists shouldn’t be allowed to examine successful companies https://t.co/8rpXkOLaUn https://t.co/nFpDZGJALc — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Max_Fisher: Hard to think of a better metaphor for the 21st century than China, South Korea, Singapore, Japan all on their way to getti… — PolitiTweet.org

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Why would they need to? Money algorithm go brr — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SevaUT: they made a whole movie out of it! With Tom hanks. It was a comedy. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kevinroose: Joel Kaplan was hired to lobby Republicans on behalf of Facebook, but this story makes it pretty clear that his actual succ… — PolitiTweet.org

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@evanchill The fluorescent box wasn’t great but interacting all day with people bonded by a shared mission was sorta nice — PolitiTweet.org

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

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RT @JenParker393: My high school friend @caroranwill, a wildly talented poet and visionary writer, graces the pages of @nytopinion's Sunday… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

RT @sarafischer: 🚨 Verizon pulling ads from FB, Insta, likely biggest advertiser so far to do so - What started as whisper campaign now of… — PolitiTweet.org

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Hard to overstate how extraordinary an investigation into police brutality has to be for a major city police chief to announce *within hours* that she was “extremely disturbed” and “sickened beyond words,” apologize, and make immediate reforms. https://t.co/d6yiu3nSir — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @daiwaka: This is incredible journalism https://t.co/jz4h6J3YhN — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @amandamull: To get some random person fired in the middle of a pandemic over a stupid thing she did at a media party two years ago and… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Vinncent: I, like many others, went down a rabbit hole on that "viral" video yesterday and came to some conclusions about the man who t… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @zeynep: Instead of short-term celebration of whatever happens to please one group, people should think: Wait how will this be weaponize… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ImUrHuckleJordy: The CIA doesn't need to coordinate a nationwide fireworks psy-op because they already have a website where the mere co… — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

“Sense of ownership” is a good way to put it. Lots of libs trying to publicly align themselves with the TikTok teens by scolding one another on twitter/FB for not praising Gen Z strongly enough, or for calling it “prank” instead of “activism,” as if those are mutually exclusive. — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Every once in a while some social media conspiracy will percolate up to a Twitter mega-threader, sparking a big debate about it. But this stuff is absolutely pervasive on Facebook, which is usually where it comes from, and where it typically spreads unchallenged to huge audiences — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @BriannaWu: 1/ A high-profile journalist writing a book about online radicalization told me recently that all his research kept pointing… — PolitiTweet.org

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This is the co-author of the leading scholarly investigation of how democracies backslide into authoritarianism https://t.co/oL6iqywrLp — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

When you ask scholars of democratic decline to name the number one red-alarm warning sign, this is almost always what they describe. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ebruenig: there's just something unsustainable about an environment that demands constant atonement but actively disdains the very idea… — PolitiTweet.org

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Wasow is attuned to online discourse and skilled at defending to his work to online audiences, so his research will rightly stand. But should facility with social media discourse really be what determines whether politically-relevant research is embraced or discarded? — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

Often tell social scientists I work with: if your work gets attention, someone will try to debunk it. For political reasons, or they misunderstood it, or just for attention. Debunkings, even wrong ones, reliably go viral. Be ready to mount a public defense https://t.co/mWd9X1DRDU — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@Maxsimile Too late I’m already mad about Sydney-Isfahan (???) — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@MADarbyshire No but it looks incredible – just ordered it on kindle and can’t wait to read it. Really appreciate you sharing the suggestion — PolitiTweet.org

Max Fisher @Max_Fisher

@MADarbyshire Me too! I bring it up with people all the time — PolitiTweet.org