Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.
It’s time for Zuckerberg to go to jail.
Their reams of data converged on a breathtaking statistic: Wherever per-person Facebook use rose to one standard deviation above the national average, attacks on refugees increased by about 50 percent.
It’s time for Zuckerberg to go to jail.
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Woah. I gotta read this.
(Long, low whistle)
I suspect the causality is ..complicated. It could be that there are some factors in the other direction—for instance: racist violence is a fringe interest (speaking broadly) that leads to more online-only conversation; or, that racism drives people to talk more to culturally similar contacts, instead of the (more diverse) pool of people around them.
Having said that, I don’t doubt the Overton window-moving effects of bots and propaganda.
Michael Prescott How about we put Zuckerberg in jail first and figure the rest out later.