The dueling hashtags on Twitter, blaming the Clintons and Trump for Jeffrey Epstein's death, are a grim testament to our deeply poisoned information ecosystem
and Trump's tweets Pbokelly /Peter O'Kelly's Reality Check : Epstein Suicide Conspiracies Show How Our Information System Is Poisoned | NYT Tweets: Christopher Mims / @mims : twitter's trending topics are a mess unpopular opinion: a lot of journalists' agita about social media, directed at Facebook, is just an expression of their daily experience with the mess that is Twitter starting to wonder which is now a bigger threat to democracy Renee DiResta / @noupside : The problem with Twitter is inseparable from how the media engages with Twitter. Any wayward tweet by a rando egg can be elevated to an opinion worth paying attention to. Every gamed trend is a meaningful thing we have to analyze and assess in the context of the culture war https://twitter.com/... Hamza Shaban / @hshaban : Two compelling takes on coverage of Epstein's death. They examine the grim logic of Twitter driving conspiracy theories and attention-seeking that's validated and amplified by the press. https://www.nytimes.com/... by @cwarzel https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... by @abbyohlheiser https://twitter.com/... Harry McCracken / @harrymccracken : My own personal Twitter is usually a pleasant place. But these trending Epstein hashtags in the right-hand column have left it feeling pretty fetid. https://www.nytimes.com/... Rod Rosenstein / @rodrosenstein : “It has ushered in a parallel reality unrooted in fact and helped to push conspiratorial thinking into the cultural mainstream.. The media .. often acts as an amplifier for baseless claims.. The worst voices are rewarded .. and gain outsize influence.” https://www.nytimes.com/... Bari Weiss / @bariweiss : Strong column by @cwarzel. Begs the question: would things improve if all journalists got off Twitter? https://www.nytimes.com/... Gregg Easterbrook / @easterbrookg : zero irony reply: Yes, Twitter has been terrible for journalism. We can't stop it but should not help it. https://twitter.com/... Jay Rosen / @jayrosen_nyu : “It's increasingly apparent that our information delivery systems were not built for our current moment.” True. https://www.nytimes.com/... We have to persuade more journalists to recognize that fact. (Please don't @ me with “NOW they realize this?” Thanks.) Emily Pothast / @emilypothast : Interesting take. Though, as a historian of print media, I'd dispute the notion that the “news” was ever more objective than it is now. (In 1605 Johann Carolus, the world's very first newspaper publisher, faced threat of closure if he didn't censor the news.) https://twitter.com/... Charlie Warzel / @cwarzel : New from me: I wrote about the Epstein conspiracies yesterday and how our information ecosystem is poisoned. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/... See also Mediagazer
twitter's trending topics are a mess unpopular opinion: a lot of journalists' agita about social media, directed at Facebook, is just an expression of their daily experience with the mess that is Twitter starting to wonder which is now a bigger threat to democracy
The problem with Twitter is inseparable from how the media engages with Twitter. Any wayward tweet by a rando egg can be elevated to an opinion worth paying attention to. Every gamed trend is a meaningful thing we have to analyze and assess in the context of the culture war https…
Two compelling takes on coverage of Epstein's death. They examine the grim logic of Twitter driving conspiracy theories and attention-seeking that's validated and amplified by the press. https://www.nytimes.com/... by @cwarzel https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... by @abbyohlheiser…
My own personal Twitter is usually a pleasant place. But these trending Epstein hashtags in the right-hand column have left it feeling pretty fetid. https://www.nytimes.com/...
“It has ushered in a parallel reality unrooted in fact and helped to push conspiratorial thinking into the cultural mainstream.. The media .. often acts as an amplifier for baseless claims.. The worst voices are rewarded .. and gain outsize influence.” https://www.nytimes.com/...
“It's increasingly apparent that our information delivery systems were not built for our current moment.” True. https://www.nytimes.com/... We have to persuade more journalists to recognize that fact. (Please don't @ me with “NOW they realize this?” Thanks.)
Interesting take. Though, as a historian of print media, I'd dispute the notion that the “news” was ever more objective than it is now. (In 1605 Johann Carolus, the world's very first newspaper publisher, faced threat of closure if he didn't censor the news.) https://twitter.com/…
New from me: I wrote about the Epstein conspiracies yesterday and how our information ecosystem is poisoned. https://www.nytimes.com/... https://twitter.com/...