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(1/6) Good late morning from Manila! “But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last.” Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
(2/6) That was before behavioral modification systems we call social media were weaponized to manipulate people and insidiously change the way we think and behave. Now it's part of the dictator's playbook. Like this fun intvw w/ @stephensackur @BBCHARDtalk https://verafiles.org/articles/vera-files-fact-check-foreign-journos-question-ressa-taken-o
(3/6) "Move fast. Break things." What do you do when you break democracy? Doesn't that doom your own future? This is how hate makes money #StopHateForProfit #CourageON #HoldTheLine https://edition.cnn.com/2020/06/30/opinions/maria-ressa-facebook-intl-hnk/index.html
(4/6) What about Filipinos working in government? Forced "to be neutral or loyal" when silence is complicity. This is democracy's death by a thousand cuts https://www.rappler.com/move-ph/ispeak/265380-opinion-biting-hand-feeds-us-thoughts-government-worker-duterte
(5/6) You have to own the problem in order to fix it. https://www.rappler.com/technology/news/265469-zuckerberg-to-meet-facebook-ad-boycott-organizers #StopHateForProfit
(6/6) The problem is built into the design of social media - creating us vs them - and its business model of micro-targeting, distilling our most intimate selves & selling our most vulnerable moment to a message to countries & companies. https://www.rappler.com/technology/features/265462-ad-boycott-strikes-heart-facebook-business-model
